Dementia other imaging findings

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Causes Alzheimer's Disease; Parkinson's Disease; Binswanger's Disease; Dementia with Lewy bodies; Thiamine deficiency; Vascular dementia; Marijuana abuse; AIDS; Neurosyphilis; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; Vitamin B12 deficiency; Vitamin B6 deficiency;
Differential Diagnosis

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Overview[edit | edit source]

Recently, the functional neuroimaging modalities of SPECT and PET have shown quite similar ability to diagnose dementia as clinical exam ^[1]. SPECT's ability to differentiate vascular type from Alzheimer disease types of dementias appears to be superior to clinical exam.^[2]

SPECT and PET[edit | edit source]

PET, positron emission tomography and SPECT, single-photon emission computed tomography narrow down the differential diagnosis of dementias but in most cases show almost same findings as that of CT and MRI.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Bonte FJ, Harris TS, Hynan LS, Bigio EH, White CL (2006). "Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT in the differential diagnosis of the dementias with histopathologic confirmation". Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 31 (7): 376–8. doi:10.1097/01.rlu.0000222736.81365.63. PMID 16785801. Retrieved 2012-08-30. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
↑ Dougall NJ, Bruggink S, Ebmeier KP (2004). "Systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in dementia". The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 12 (6): 554–70. doi:10.1176/appi.ajgp.12.6.554. PMID 15545324. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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[pmid16785801-1] Bonte FJ, Harris TS, Hynan LS, Bigio EH, White CL (2006). "Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT in the differential diagnosis of the dementias with histopathologic confirmation". Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 31 (7): 376–8. doi:10.1097/01.rlu.0000222736.81365.63. PMID 16785801. Retrieved 2012-08-30. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[pmid15545324-2] Dougall NJ, Bruggink S, Ebmeier KP (2004). "Systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in dementia". The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 12 (6): 554–70. doi:10.1176/appi.ajgp.12.6.554. PMID 15545324. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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