A Rare Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in an 80-Year-Old Male

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, rapid and fatal human prion disease that causes neurodegeneration. Rapidly progressive dementia, quick involuntary muscle jerking and specific radiographic and laboratory findings are characteristic of the disease. CJD should not be ruled even if the clinic...

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Autores principales: Dervishi, Mario, Lambert, Travis, Markosyan Karapetyan, Maria, Warra, Nader, Iskenderian, Ziyad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7450880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864281
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10038

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