Focal dystonia as the presenting sign in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1097-1098

  Hellmann, A Mark ^a   Melamed, Eldad ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Focal dystonia

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; PRION PROTEIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRY EYE; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 0036764604     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10232     Document Type: Article

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