Phenotypic similarities causing clinical misdiagnosis of pathologically-confirmed sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease as dementia with Lewy bodies

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 194-197

  du Plessis, D G ^a   Larner, A J ^b  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Dementia with Lewy bodies; Diagnosis

Indexed keywords

FLUDROCORTISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARKINSONISM; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MALE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 38149032528     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.09.017     Document Type: Article

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