A case of progressive frontal lobe syndrome in a sporadic form of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A singular overlap with fronto-temporal dementia?

Cinzia Coppola; Dario Saracino; Francesca Califano; Anna Maria Barbarulo; Giuseppe Di Fede; Elena Piccoli; Fabrizio Tagliavini; Giuseppe Di Iorio; Giacomina Rossi

doi:10.1016/j.jns.2015.08.1533

A case of progressive frontal lobe syndrome in a sporadic form of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A singular overlap with fronto-temporal dementia?

J Neurol Sci. 2015 Dec 15;359(1-2):247-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2015.08.1533. Epub 2015 Aug 28.

Authors

Cinzia Coppola¹, Dario Saracino², Francesca Califano², Anna Maria Barbarulo², Giuseppe Di Fede³, Elena Piccoli³, Fabrizio Tagliavini³, Giuseppe Di Iorio², Giacomina Rossi³

Affiliations

¹ Second Division of Neurology of the Second University of Naples, Isola 8-Edificio 10 Policlinico "Federico II", Via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Second Division of Neurology of the Second University of Naples, Isola 8-Edificio 10 Policlinico "Federico II", Via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy.
³ Division of Neurology V and Neuropathology, Neurological Institute "Carlo Besta" Foundation IRCCS - Milan, Italy.

PMID: 26671122
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2015.08.1533

No abstract available

Keywords: Akinetic mutism; Atypical dementia; Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA); Cerebral haemorrhage; Familial FTD; Frontal lobe syndrome; Fronto-temporal dementia (FTD).

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy / complications*
Cognition Disorders / etiology*
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 / pharmacokinetics
Frontal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
Frontal Lobe / pathology*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Positron-Emission Tomography

Substances

Fluorodeoxyglucose F18