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In-vivo demonstration of dopaminergic degeneration in dementia with Lewy bodies

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Abstract

With the dopaminergic presynaptic ligand FP-CIT and single photon emission tomography we have shown a severe dopaminergic degeneration in a patient with a necropsy confirmed diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We suggest that functional imaging of the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway helps to distinguish DLB from Alzheimer's disease during life.

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Author(s): Walker Z, Costa DC, Ince P, McKeith IG, Katona CLE

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Lancet

Year: 1999

Volume: 354

Issue: 9179

Pages: 646-647

Print publication date: 21/08/1999

ISSN (print): 0140-6736

ISSN (electronic): 1474-547X

Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(99)01178-2

DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)01178-2

PubMed id: 10466669

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