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A proposal of new diagnostic pathway for fatal familial insomnia.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Jun 2014
Krasnianski A, Sanchez Juan P, Ponto Claudia, Bartl M, Heinemann U, Varges D, Schulz-Schaeffer W J, Kretzschmar H A, Zerr I
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BACKGROUND: In absence of a positive family history, the diagnosis of fatal familial insomnia (FFI) might be difficult because of atypical clinical features and low sensitivity of diagnostic tests. FFI patients usually do not fulfil the established classification criteria for Creutzfeldt-Jakob di...
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