Diagnostic approach in a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

ABSTRACT Prion diseases are an important cause of rapidly progressive dementias. Among them, the most common is sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). It is a rare and incurable disease, with rapid progression to death. Objective: To describe the diagnostic approach of a patient with Creutzfeldt...

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Main Authors: José Wagner Leonel Tavares-Júnior, Renata de Oliveira Carvalho, Raul Raposo Pereira Feitosa, Flávia de Paiva Santos Rolim, Felipe Araújo Rocha, Milena Sales Pitombeira, George Linard Silva Malveira, João José Freitas de Carvalho, Norberto Anizio Ferreira Frota, Daniel Aguiar Dias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2022-05-01
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642022005004205&lng=en&tlng=en