title: Non-Alzheimer types of neurodegenerative dementia: clinical and 18F-FDG-PET/CT pictures.
abstract: Primary degenerative dementia syndromes are an increasingly relevant problem worldwide because of the progressive aging of the population. Their diagnosis is often a challenge for clinicians and, even in the best cases, only a possible or probable diagnosis can be reached. Molecular neuroimaging techniques can be very useful in dementia patients, especially for obtaining a diagnosis in the early stage of disease. The most diffuse and widely available nuclear medicine method for neurological studies is F-fluoro-deoxy-glucose (F-FDG)-PET, which allows the quantification of glucose gray matter metabolism and helps visualize typical, adequately specific, patterns for many kinds of degenerative dementia, not only for the well-known and well-studied Alzheimer's disease. This paper aims to describe the clinical and F-FDG-PET profiles of the principal non-Alzheimer type of degenerative dementias.
authors.affiliation: aNuclear Medicine Department, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Rovigo bNuclear Medicine Department, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy cNuclear Medicine Department, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University, Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool dDepartment of Physics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK eDepartment of Radiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Gaia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grassetto
authors.forename: Maria Cristina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Marzola
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Musto
authors.forename: Sobhan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Viniamury
authors.forename: Patrick M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Colletti
authors.forename: Alan C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Perkins
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rubello
mesh_terms: D003704:Dementia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D059907:Functional Neuroimaging; D006801:Humans; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18