Atypical features of dementia in a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Pa̧chalska, Maria ^a   Kurzbauer, Henryk ^b   Formińska Kapuścik, Maria ^c   Urbanik, Andrzej ^d   Bierzyńska Macyszyn, Grazyna ^e   Właszczuk, Paweł ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration   (Poland)

^c Eye Surgery Clinic   (Poland)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Akinetic mutism; Cerebral atrophy; Dementia; Spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CASE REPORT; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; DYSGRAPHIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MUTISM; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGED; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 33846015526     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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