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Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease with a codon 200 mutation presenting as thalamic syndrome: diagnosis by single photon emission computed tomography using (99m)Tc-ethyl cysteinate dimer.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2008
Konno Shingo, Murata Mayumi, Toda Takahiro, Yoshii Yasuhiro, Nakazora Hiroshi, Nomoto Nobuatsu, Sugimoto Hideki, Nemoto Hiroshi, Wakata Nobuo, Fujioka Toshiki, Kurihara Teruyuki
Abstract excerpt
The clinical features of familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with a codon 200 point mutation [fCJD (E200K)] are similar to those of sporadic CJD (sCJD). MRI diffusion-weighted imaging (MRI-DWI) has been reported to be useful for the early diagnosis of CJD. We describe a Japanese fCJD (E200K) case...
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