Upbeat nystagmus as the initial clinical sign of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease [4]

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 607-608

  Zingler, Vera Carina ^a   Strupp, Michael ^a   Jahn, Klaus ^a   Glaser, Miriam ^a   Herberger, Simone ^a   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^a   Brandt, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN 14 3 3; PROTEIN S100B;

AGED; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DYSMETRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; UPBEAT NYSTAGMUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; PRPSC PROTEINS;

EID: 16344364164     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20435     Document Type: Letter

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