Spinal dementia: Don't miss it, it's treatable.
Horst UrbachA El RahalK WolfC ZanderT DemerathF VolzJ BeckN LützenPublished in: Neuroradiology (2024)
It is mandatory to study the (thoracic) spine in cognitively impaired patients with brain sagging and/ or infratentorial hemosiderosis on MRI. We propose the term spinal dementia to draw attention to this region, which in turn is evaluated with dynamic digital subtraction and CT myelography.
Keyphrases
- mild cognitive impairment
- spinal cord
- contrast enhanced
- cognitive impairment
- cognitive decline
- magnetic resonance imaging
- dual energy
- computed tomography
- working memory
- preterm infants
- white matter
- image quality
- sensitive detection
- magnetic resonance
- diffusion weighted imaging
- positron emission tomography
- living cells
- brain injury
- cerebral ischemia
- functional connectivity
- single molecule