Clinical and diagnostic findings in a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (type Heidenhain)

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-54

  Staffen, W ^a,b   Trinka, E ^b   Iglseder, B ^b   Pilz, P ^b   Homann, N ^b   Ladurner, G ^b  

^a Salzburger Landeskliniken   (Austria)

^b NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ASTROCYTOSIS; ATAXIC GAIT; AUTOPSY; BLINDNESS; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSTONIC DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPESTHESIA; IMMOBILITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUTENESS; MYOCLONUS; NEUROIMAGING; PUTAMEN; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION;

EID: 0031015974     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jon19977150     Document Type: Article

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