Giant visually-evoked potentials without myoclonus in the Heidenhain type of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-75

  Finsterer, J ^a,c   Bancher, C ^b   Mamoli, B ^a  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b Municipal Hospital Lainz   (Austria)

^c NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Impaired visual acuity; Prion disease; Spongiform encephalopathy; Visually evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS;

EID: 0032798038     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(99)00145-8     Document Type: Article

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