Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: three autopsy cases of the panencephalopathic type.

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Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: three autopsy cases of the panencephalopathic type.

Clinical neuropathology - 1 Jan 2000

Seno H, Ishino H, Inagaki T, Yamamori C, Iijima M, Tanaka S, Kobayashi S, Shimizu Y, Torii I, Harada T

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Three autopsy cases of panencephalopathic type of familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) were investigated. Cases 1 (51-year-old male) and 3 (54-year-old female) were siblings and Case 2 (68-year-old female) was their aunt. In cases 1 and 3, the age of onset (Case 1:51, Case 3:53), duration of...

Topics

Aged
Brain
Cerebral Cortex
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Necrosis
Neurologic Examination
Pedigree
Phenotype
Risk Factors

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