Prion disease: Thorough work-up and new diagnostic criteria needed for CJD

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 479-480

  Perry, David C ^a   Geschwind, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN 14 3 3;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MARCHIAFAVA BIGNAMI DISEASE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 80052447468     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2011.118     Document Type: Short Survey

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