MRI of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
2008
Summary
The key MRI findings in five cases of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) are illustrated with four ‘definite’ and one ‘probable’ according to World Health Organization criteria. Close attention to fluid-attenuation inversion recovery and diffusion-weighted imaging sequences are important for diagnosis, noting especially restricted diffusion in cortical and deep grey matter. Our study and those of others show predominant cortical, caudate and thalamic involvement. This pattern is highly sensitive and specific for the diagnosis. Fluid-attenuation inversion recovery and diffusion-weighted imaging signal abnormality becomes progressively more extensive and bilateral as disease progresses, but may become less pronounced in end-stage disease because of atrophy.
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