Published May 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Contribution of the SPECT in the etiologic diagnosis of dementia

  • 1. EA 2691, centre memoire de ressources et de recherche, CHU de Lille, (France)
  • 2. EA 1049, imagerie fonctionnelle cerebrale, universite Lille-II, CHU de Lille, (France)
  • 3. pole de neuropathologie, CHU de Lille, (France)

Description

The aim of this study is to test the contribution of the SPECT of perfusion with hexamethyl propylene amine oxime (H.M.P.A.O.) in the etiologic diagnosis of dementia by comparing the clinical data, tomography and pathology ones at the heart of a patients cohort followed in a center of resources memory and research. The SPECT increases the specificity of the etiologic diagnosis of degenerative dementia. The diagnosis concordance of the clinical and the SPECT corresponds in the most of cases to the certainty diagnosis. (N.C.)

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Original title (French)
Apport de la tomographie par emission monophotonique dans le diagnostic etiologique des demences

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Medecine Nucleaire. Imagerie Fonctionnelle et Metabolique
Journal Volume
33
Journal Issue
no.5
Journal Page Range
p. 238
ISSN
0928-1258
CODEN
MNIMEX