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Clinical course in young patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Annals of neurology - 1 Oct 2005
Boesenberg Constanze, Schulz-Schaeffer Walter J, Meissner Bettina, Kallenberg Kai, Bartl Mario, Heinemann Uta, Krasnianski Anna, Stoeck Katharina, Varges Daniela, Windl Otto, Kretzschmar Hans A, Zerr Inga
Abstract excerpt
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease with the greatest incidence occurring in patients between 60 and 70 years old. Younger patients may also be affected. In this study, we used all case material available from 52 patients with sCJD aged 50 years or younger at disease onset, who were identified between 1993 and 2003 in Germany. The objective of this study was to describe...
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