Patterns of atrophy in pathologically confirmed FTLD with and without motor neuron degeneration.

Whitwell, Jennifer L; Jack, Clifford R; Senjem, Matthew L; Josephs, Keith A · Neurology · 2006

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

The authors used voxel-based morphometry to compare the patterns of brain atrophy in two variants of pathologically confirmed frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD): FTLD with motor neuron disease (FTLD-MND) and FTLD with ubiquitin-only-immunoreactive neuronal changes (FTLD-U). Patterns of atrophy were distinct and different from each other. A localized pattern of frontal lobe atrophy was found in FTLD-MND with a more widespread pattern of atrophy affecting the frontal and temporal lobes in FTLD-U.

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