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The first case of protease-sensitive prionopathy (PSPr) in The Netherlands: a patient with an unusual GSS-like clinical phenotype.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Sept 2010
Jansen C, Head M W, van Gool W A, Baas F, Yull H, Ironside J W, Rozemuller A J M
Abstract excerpt
An atypical case of prion disease is described in a 54-year-old Dutch man, homozygous for valine at codon 129 of the prion protein gene (PRNP). The clinical phenotype was characterised by progressive dementia, spastic paraplegia and sensorimotor polyneuropathy. The disease duration was 20 months. Genetic analysis of PRNP did not reveal any abnormalities. Neuropathologically, only mild spongiform change and a...
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