PURPOSE: To assess the information supplied by FDG-PET in patients with locally advanced
rectal cancer both in the initial staging and in the evaluation of tumor changes induced by …

Detection of the primary tumor has a key role in the management of patients with unknown
primary tumors (UPT). The aim of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of the literature to …

Thioflavin T derivatives are used in positron-emission tomography (PET) studies to detect
amyloid protein deposits in patients with Alzheimer disease. These tracers bind extensively to …

Background Positron emission tomography (PET) images with amyloid tracers show normal
uptake in healthy white matter, which suggests that amyloid tracers are potentially useful for …

Background: Episodic memory disturbance is still considered as an exclusion criterion for
behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), but growing evidence suggests that …

Objectives Apathy is one of the most common and disabling syndromes of dementia. Clinical
apathy expression and neuroanatomical basis of apathy seem to differ between behavioral …

The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) has been associated with
Alzheimer disease, although this relationship is still subject to debate. The purpose of this study …

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) may be the onset of several neurodegenerative diseases.
This study evaluates a cohort of patients with PPA to assess their progression to different …

Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a clinical syndrome characterized by the
neurodegeneration of language brain systems. Three main clinical forms (non-fluent, …

Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome for which
no effective treatment is available. Objective: We aimed to assess the effect of repetitive …