The Role of CT and MRI in the Evaluation of Dementia.

Publication: American Family Physician

Publication Date: 01-APR-01

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Large studies have shown that fewer than 10 percent of patients with dementia have a form of the disease that is partially reversible, and only 1.5 to 3.0 percent of patients have fully reversible dementia. Because of these findings, it has been suggested that neuroimaging should not be a part of the routine work-up for dementia in patients presenting with cognitive decline. Massoud and colleagues conducted a study to determine the neuropathologic diagnoses of dementia patients, to compare the neuropathologic findings with results from neuroimaging studies and to assess the results of a dementia work-up compared with the pathologic diagnosis.

Persons were enrolled from a tertiary care...

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