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Clinical radiological correlation in E200K familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 Dec 2016
Cohen Oren S, Chapman Joab, Korczyn Amos D, Siaw Oliver L, Warman-Alaluf Naama, Nitsan Zeev, Appel Shmuel, Kahana Esther, Rosenmann Hanna, Hoffmann Chen
Abstract excerpt
The use of diffusion MRI improved the accuracy of diagnosis in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and expanded our knowledge of the changes occurring in the brain during the disease. The aim of this study was to test whether in patients with E200K familial CJD (fCJD) the clinical severity correlates with the disease burden as reflected by the extent of cortical involvement in DWI MRI. Consecutive fCJD patients were...
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