NR ABGU
AU Bergsholm,P.; Skre,H.; Mork,S.
TI Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Infection of infancy or childhood?
QU European Neurology 1979; 18(2): 73-8
PT journal article
AB A 51-year-old man who died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), had transient dyskinesias with intention myoclonus and exaggerated startle reaction in early life. This may suggest a link between myoclonic encephalopathy of infants and CJD, and an incubation period of more than 40 years of the transmissible agent of CJD.
MH Case Report; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/*etiology/microbiology/pathology; Electroencephalography; Human; Male; Middle Age; Myoclonus/*complications/microbiology; Nerve Degeneration; Neuroglia/pathology; Time Factors
SP englisch
PO Schweiz