Kufs' disease: Diagnostic dificulties in the examination of extracerebral biopsies

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-267

  Lewandowska, Eliza ^a   Lipczyńska Łojkowska, Wanda ^a   Modzelewska, Joanna ^a   Wierzba Bobrowicz, Teresa ^a   Mierzewska, Hanna ^b   Szpak, Grazyna M ^a   Pasennik, Elzbieta ^a   Jachińska, Katarzyna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

Author keywords

Curvilinear profiles; Fingerprint deposits; NCL; Ultrastructure; Vascular smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; AWARENESS; BABINSKI REFLEX; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSOMNIA; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE TONE; NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS; NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS TYPE 4; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SKIN BIOPSY; SPEECH DISORDER; URINE INCONTINENCE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 70350355069     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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