Article
New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: neurological features and diagnostic tests.
Lancet (London, England) - 27 Sept 1997
Zeidler M, Stewart G E, Barraclough C R, Bateman D E, Bates D, Burn D J, Colchester A C, Durward W, Fletcher N A, Hawkins S A, Mackenzie J M, Will R G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In April, 1996, ten cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) with an apparently new clinicopathological phenotype were published and it was suggested that these new variant cases (nvCJD) might be causally linked to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). There have now been 21 cases o...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
- Electroencephalography
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Prions
- Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed