Clinical range and MRI in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with heterozygosity at codon 129 and prion protein type 2

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 678-681

  Samman, Irene ^a   Schulz Schaeffer, W J ^b   Wohrle J C ^a   Sommer, A ^a   Kretzschmar, H A ^b   Hennerici, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Histopathology; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; NERVE PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PRION PROTEIN; VALINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY;

EID: 0032863045     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.67.5.678     Document Type: Article

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