Fatal familial insomnia with abnormal signals on routine MRI: a case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a rare autosomal dominant disease caused by the PRNP D178N/129 M mutation. Routine brain CT and MRI usually reveal non-specific features. We report a patient with FFI presenting with diffuse abnormal signals on MRI, later confirmed as combined with cerebr...

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Autores principales: Lu, Tingting, Pan, Yuhang, Peng, Lisheng, Qin, Feng, Sun, Xiaobo, Lu, Zhengqi, Qiu, Wei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5446761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28549449
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-017-0886-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5446761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28549449
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-017-0886-2

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