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The imaging appearance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease caused by the E200K mutation.
Magnetic resonance imaging - 1 Nov 2006
Fulbright Robert K, Kingsley Peter B, Guo Xiaodong, Hoffmann Chen, Kahana Esther, Chapman Joab C, Prohovnik Isak
Abstract excerpt
The E200K mutation on chromosome 20 can cause familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Patients with this mutation are clinically similar to those with sporadic CJD, but their imaging features are not well documented. We report here the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging characteristics of this unique group of patients using three-dimensional spoiled gradient recalled...
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