Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with mesiotemporal hypermetabolism

J Neurol Sci. 2014 Oct 15;345(1-2):278-80. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.07.054. Epub 2014 Aug 1.

Authors

Philipp Euskirchen¹, Ralph Buchert², Arend Koch³, Walter J Schulz-Schaeffer⁴, Stephan J Schreiber⁵, Jan Sobesky⁵

Affiliations

¹ Dept. of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: philipp.euskirchen@charite.de.
² Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
³ Dept. of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Dept. of Neuropathology, Prion and Dementia Research Unit, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany.
⁵ Dept. of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 25115503
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.07.054

No abstract available

Keywords: Brain biopsy; Limbic encephalitis; NMDA receptor antibodies; Position emission tomography; Prion disease; Rapidly progressive dementia.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Basal Ganglia / diagnostic imaging
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / complications*
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Female
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Humans
Metabolic Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Metabolic Diseases / etiology*
Metabolic Diseases / pathology*
Positron-Emission Tomography
Temporal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
Temporal Lobe / metabolism*

Substances

Fluorodeoxyglucose F18

Supplementary concepts

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Sporadic