NR AIWP
AU Nigro,N.; Nigro,G.
TI ["Pediatric" forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD)]
OT Forme "pediatriche" della malattia di Creutzfeldt-Jakob (nvCJD)
QU Minerva Pediatrica 1997 Nov; 49(11): 529-31
PT journal article; review; review, tutorial
AB The authors propose the name of pediatric CJD disease (nvCJD) for those forms of this pathology which appear in childhood and adolescence (about twenty cases have been reported in Europe: 1996). The "pediatric form" differs both in terms of age ("teenagers" and also 16-year-old), but also owing to its long course (mean of 14 to 35 months) and the early onset of psychiatric and sensory symptoms. Until a few years ago, discussion of a new pediatric-adolescent form of the disease (new variant of CJD) would have been laughable.
ZR 10
MH Child; Child, Preschool; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/*diagnosis/etiology; English Abstract; Human
AD Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Universita degli Studi, Torino.
SP italienisch
PO Italien