Abstract
A 61-year-old right-handed man presented with decreased cognitive function, short-term memory, fluent speech disorders, and grammatical errors for 1 year. The patient underwent PET imaging with 11 C-PIB, 18 F-FDG, and 18 F-APN-1607. The 11 C-PIB PET showed no amyloid accumulation; the 18 F-FDG PET showed hypometabolism in the bilateral frontal lobe, temporal lobe, and midbrain; and the 18 F-APN-1607 PET showed tau accumulation in the brainstem, basal ganglia, and left inferior frontal gyrus. These findings suggested a diagnosis of nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia. This case emphasizes the value of combined imaging of glucose metabolism, Aβ, and tau PET in the diagnosis of nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia.
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