corticobasal syndrome (CBS)

Etiology

• Alzheimer's disease
• corticobasal degeneration
• progressive supranuclear palsy
• frontotemporal dementia
• Lewy body dementia
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Clinical manifestations

• dementia
• asymmetric parkinsonism
• dystonia
• apraxia

Radiology

• positron emission tomography (PET) scan using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)
  • bilateral frontal and parietal hypometabolism
  • normal glucose metabolism in the basal ganglia

More general terms

• frontotemporal dementia
• syndrome

Additional terms

• cortical-basal ganglionic degeneration; corticobasal degeneration

Patient information

corticobasal syndrome patient information