Clinical and radiological mimicry of vCJD in a valine homozygous PrPSc type 1 sCJD patient [3]

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 250, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 491-493

  Rossetti, Andrea O ^a   Glatzel, Markus ^b   Aguzzi, Adriano ^b   Janzer, Robert ^a   Bogousslavsky, Julien ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; VALINE;

ADULT; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGE OF ONSET; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CODON; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PRPSC PROTEINS;

EID: 0344942637     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-003-1006-3     Document Type: Letter

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