You must be logged in to vote!
dickass
and the patient has no chorea
+6
chj7
Also, in frontotemporal dementia, due to disease of the "cortex", memory/speech/behavioural changes occur early on.
(In Pathoma at the beginning of the dementia lecture, he emphasizes distinguishing between disorders of the cortex vs. disorders of the striatum (ie. Huntington's & Parkinson's) as clinical presentations are easily separated.)
+1
You must be logged in to vote!
You must be logged in to vote!
len49
Lol if they gave the modern name, it would be too easy I guess.
+
You must be logged in to vote!
submitted by โhayayah(1212)
Frontotemporal dementia (formerly known as Pick disease): Early changes in personality and behavior (behavioral variant), or aphasia (primary progressive aphasia). May have associated movement disorders (eg, parkinsonism).
While this presents very similiarly to Hungtington's, you can differentiate it because in this stem it says "atrophy of the frontal lobes bilaterally" whereas Huntington's has atrophy of caudate and putamen with ex vacuo ventriculomegaly.