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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with long duration and panencephalopathic lesions: molecular analysis of one case.
Neurology - 1 Jul 1998
Ghorayeb I, Series C, Parchi P, Sawan B, Guez S, Laplanche J L, Capellari S, Gambetti P, Vital C
Abstract excerpt
A 49-year-old woman presented with isolated aphasia followed by dementia and ataxia with a duration of 4 years. Histopathologically there was panencephalic involvement, status spongiosus, and kuru-type plaques. Molecular analysis showed heterozygosity at codon 129 in the prion protein (PrP) gene, and type 2 protease-resistant PrP. The comparison between this case and those previously reported suggests that the...
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