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Putative neurosurgical transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with analysis of donor and recipient: agent strains.
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie III, Sciences de la vie - 1 Apr 1997
el Hachimi K H, Chaunu M P, Cervenakova L, Brown P, Foncin J F
Abstract excerpt
A woman, aged 59 years, underwent a cortical biopsy that led to the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). A man, aged 46 years, underwent cranial surgery in the same department 3 days later for brain contusion, with an uneventful recovery. Twenty six months later, he developed clinical signs of CJD with a typical EEG pattern. Both cases exhibited features of the 'ataxic' form of the disease with depletion...
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