Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease: The second case in Portugal and in the same geographical region

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-182

  Machado, Álvaro ^a   Soares, H ^a   Antunes, H ^a   Magalhaes Z ^a   Ferreira, C ^a   Baldeiras, I ^b   Ribeiro, M H ^b   Santana, I ^b   Ramalheira, J ^c   Castro, L ^d   Carpenter, S ^d  

^a HOSPITAL DE BRAGA   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO   (Portugal)

^d HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN; PRP4T PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOREOATHETOSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERNIORRHAPHY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEG PAIN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PNRP GENE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; METHIONINE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 38849188806     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.128389     Document Type: Article

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