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Regional glucose metabolic abnormalities are not the result of atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

DOI

321

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0

References

1998

Year

V. Ibáñez Pradas, Pietro Pietrini, Gene E. Alexander, Maura L. Furey, Diane Teichberg, Jagath C. Rajapakse, Mark B. Schapiro, Barry Horwitz
Neurology

Abstract

Reduced glucose metabolism measured by PET in AD is not simply an artifact due to an increase in CSF space induced by atrophy, but reflects a true metabolic reduction per gram of tissue.