Case Report: 18F-MK6240 Tau Positron Emission Tomography Pattern Resembling Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a Retired Australian Rules Football Player

Case Report: 18F-MK6240 Tau Positron Emission Tomography Pattern Resembling Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a Retired Australian Rules Football Player

Introduction: It remains unclear if tau imaging may assist diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Flortaucipir PET has shown superior frontal with medial temporal tau binding consistent with the provisional neuropathological criteria for mid-stage CTE in group-level analyses of retired...

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Main Authors: Natasha Krishnadas, Vincent Doré, Fiona Lamb, Colin Groot, Paul McCrory, Rodney Guzman, Rachel Mulligan, Kun Huang, Meaghan O'Donnell, Jennie Ponsford, Malcolm Hopwood, Victor L. Villemagne, Christopher C. Rowe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
tau
case report
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2020.598980/full

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