Case Report of an Unusual Stroke-like Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease with Medulla Oblongata Motor Nuclei Lesion

Abstract

Background: The reports of long-term imaging traces for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) have been rare to date, although diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) has high sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis of sCJD in the early stage of disease. And sCJD-associated neuropathologic brainstem abnormalities on DWI are considered uncommon. Here, we provided a sequential neuroimaging of a late-onset sCJD with medulla oblongata motor nuclei lesion.