NR AIWD
AU Ng,K.K.P.; Li,P.C.K.; Wong,C.K.; Chan,J.H.M.; Yeung,J.H.M.; Loo,K.T.
TI Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Hong Kong
QU Hong Kong Medical Journal = Hsiang-kang i hsueh tsa chih / Hong Kong Academy of Medicine 1997 Dec; 3(4): 439-443
PT journal article
AB Two elderly patients presented with rapidly progressive dementia and their electroencephalograms showed periodic discharges. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was pathologically confirmed in one of the patients. Striking clinical features and characteristic electroencephalograms should prompt the clinical diagnosis in most patients.
AD Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
SP englisch