NR AGZS
AU Lang,C.J.G.; Heckmann,J.G.; Querner,V.; Neundörfer,B.; Kornhuber,J.; Buchfelder,M.; Kretzschmar,H.A.
TI Disease latency in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease via dural grafting: a case report.
QU European Journal of Epidemiology 2001; 17(11): 1013-4
PT journal article
AB The case of a 57-year old man is reported who had been operated upon for cerebellar angioblastoma more than 19 years previously. Having received a lyophilized dural patch he developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of which he died 19 months later. This is the longest latency with dura-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease reported so far.
AD Neurological Hospital, Outpatient Department, Friedrich-Alexander-University at Erlangen, Germany. christoph.lang@neuro.imed.uni-erlangen.de
SP englisch
PO Niederlande