Recent developments in innervation imaging using iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanid

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Recent developments in innervation imaging using

iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy in Lewy body diseases

As described by recent studies, MIBG scintigraphy is a valuable diagnostic tool

for differentiation between Lewy body diseases and parkinsonian syndromes or

other movement disorders with parkinsonism. Furthermore, this method may provide

a powerful differential diagnostic tool between dementia with Lewy bodies and

Alzheimer's disease. The authors also reported the results of clinical

investigations about the correlation between characteristics of Parkinson's

disease and myocardial MIBG uptake.

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