Pellagra encephalopathy as a differential diagnosis for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 231-235

  Kapas, Istvan ^a   Majtenyi, Katalin ^a   Törö, Klara ^b   Keller, Eva ^b   Voigtländer, Till ^c   Kovacs, Gabor G ^c  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Department of Forensic Medicine and Insurance Medicine ^*  (Hungary)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chromatolysis; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Dementia; Pellagra; Prion; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN 14 3 3;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MYOCLONUS; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PELLAGRA ENCEPHALOPATHY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPASTICITY; SPORADIC CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; SYMPTOM;

14-3-3 PROTEINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELLAGRA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84863422495     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-012-9308-8     Document Type: Article

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