Response to the article by adanipar et al.: the first report of a patient with probable variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease in... Validated criteria for the classification of cases of suspected vCJD [1] have been agreed on internation-ally and contain obligatory preconditions, the presence of specific clinical features, and the results of specialist investigations, including the ‘pulvinar sign ’ on MRI brain scan....
Post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging in patients with suspected prion disease: pathological confirmation, sensitivity, specificity and observer reliability. a national registry... Two neuroradiologists independently assessed MRI for atrophy, white matter hyperintensities, and caudate, lentiform and pulvinar signals, blind to histopathological diagnosis and clinical details....
Post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging in patients with suspected prion disease: pathological confirmation, sensitivity, specificity and observer reliability. a national registry.... Two neuroradiologists independently assessed MRI for atrophy, white matter hyperintensities, and caudate, lentiform and pulvinar signals, blind to histopathological diagnosis and clinical details....
Diagnosing variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease with the pulvinar sign: mr imaging findings in 86 neuropathologically confirmed cases... Symmetrical hyperintensity in the pulvinar (posterior) nuclei of the thalamus (pulvinar sign) on brain MR images was described as a specific, noninvasive, diagnostic sign of vCJD in a previous small series....
