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Chorea as a presenting feature of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

✍ Scribed by David McKee; Paul Talbot

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
274 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-3185

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Abstract

We report on a patient with pathologically proven variant Creutzfeld‐Jakob disease in whom chorea was a presenting feature of the disease, and was unaccompanied by the typical prodrome of psychiatric disturbance or sensory symptoms. © 2003 Movement Disorder Society

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