Article
Clinical characteristics of familial and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Finland.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Jun 1993
Kovanen J
Abstract excerpt
The clinical features of 44 Finnish patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) were analyzed with special emphasis on the differences between the sporadic and familial forms. The 32 sporadic patients comprised all neuropathologically verified cases of CJD in 1974-89 in Finland. The 12 familial...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Brain
- Codon
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Disability Evaluation
- Female
- Finland
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Incidence
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation