Pruritus in familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: A common symptom associated with central nervous system pathology

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-95

  Cohen, Oren S ^a,b   Chapman, Joab ^a,b   Lee, Hedok ^c   Nitsan, Zeev ^a   Appel, Shmuel ^a   Hoffman, Chen ^a   Rosenmann, Hanna ^d   Korczyn, Amos D ^b   Prohovnik, Isak ^c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Periaqueductal grey matter; Prion; Pruritus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; SCRAPIE; SYMPTOM;

AGED; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PRURITUS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 78751647991     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-010-5694-1     Document Type: Article

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