Bilateral vestibular failure as an early sign in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1164, Issue , 2009, Pages 390-393

  Jahn, Klaus ^a   Arbusow, Viktor ^b   Zingler, Vera C ^a   Strupp, Michael ^a   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^a   Brandt, Thomas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Neurological Practice   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateral vestibulopathy; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Prion disease; Spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OSCILLOPSIA; PRION DISEASE; UNSTEADINESS; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 66149144222     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03741.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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