Report on the first Polish case of the Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 27-31

  Kulczycki, Jerzy ^a   Collinge, John ^b   Łojkowska, Wanda ^a   Parnowski, Tadeusz ^a   Wierzba Bobrowicz, Teresa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b St Mary Hospital Medical School   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amyloid deposits; Cerebellar cortex; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Gene mutation; Gerstmann Str ussler Scheinker syndrome; Prion protein

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 3F4; PRION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CHROMOSOME 20; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEATH; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MACROGLIA; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCIPITAL BONE; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLAND; PRION DISEASE; PUTAMEN; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0035784145     PISSN: 00283894     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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