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Clinical diagnosis and differential diagnosis of CJD and vCJD. With special emphasis on laboratory tests.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 Jan 2002
Zerr Inga, Poser Sigrid
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The most widely distributed form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, typically affects patients in their sixties. Rapidly progressive dementia is usually followed by focal neurological signs and typically myoclonus. The disease duration in sporadic CJD is shorter than in variant CJD (6 months and 14 months, respectively). The clinical diagnosis in sporadic CJD is...
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