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Spreading brain lesions in a familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with V180I mutation over 4 years.
BMC neurology - 24 Nov 2012
Deguchi Kentaro, Takamiya Motonori, Deguchi Shoko, Morimoto Nobutoshi, Kurata Tomoko, Ikeda Yoshio, Abe Koji
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We report a female patient with familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with V180I mutation (fCJD with V180I), who was serially followed up with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalogram (EEG) for up to four years. CASE PRESENTATION: At 6 months after the onset, diffusion-weighted images (DWI) and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) of brain MRI revealed an increased signal...
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