Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease misdiagnosed as dementia with Lewy bodies [9]

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 252, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 861-862

  Kraemer, Christoffer ^a   Lang, Klaudia ^a   Weckesser, Matthias ^a   Evers, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEWY BODY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; LEWY BODIES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 22144497826     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-005-0779-y     Document Type: Letter

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