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Clinical diagnosis of MM2-type sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Neurology - 22 Feb 2005
Hamaguchi T, Kitamoto T, Sato T, Mizusawa H, Nakamura Y, Noguchi M, Furukawa Y, Ishida C, Kuji I, Mitani K, Murayama S, Kohriyama T, Katayama S, Yamashita M, Yamamoto T, Udaka F, Kawakami A, Ihara Y, Nishinaka T, Kuroda S, Suzuki N, Shiga Y, Arai H, Maruyama M, Yamada M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: No method for the clinical diagnosis of MM2-type sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) has been established except for pathologic examination. OBJECTIVE: To identify a reliable marker for the clinical diagnosis of MM2-type sCJD. METHODS: CSF, EEG, and neuroimaging studies were performed in eight patients with MM2-type sCJD confirmed by neuropathologic, genetic, and western blot analyses. RESULTS:...
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