Unilateral positive - Negative myoclonus in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1963-1966

  Ohnari, Keiko ^a   Matsunaga, Kaoru ^b   Uozumi, Takenori ^a   Tamagawa, Akira ^a   Hashimoto, Tomoko ^a   Tsuji, Sadatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Kumamoto Kinoh Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Positive negative myoclonus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AKINETIC MUTISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SEROLOGY; TENDON REFLEX;

BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS;

EID: 33845226882     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21078     Document Type: Article

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