Periodic electroencephalogram complexes in a patient with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 423-427

  Binelli, Simona ^a   Agazzi, Pamela ^a   Giaccone, Giorgio ^a   Will, Robert G ^b   Bugiani, Orso ^a   Franceschetti, Silvana ^a   Tagliavini, Fabrizio ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PERIODICITY; PRIONS;

EID: 32044448155     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20768     Document Type: Article

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