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Focal dystonia as the presenting sign in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

✍ Scribed by Mark A. Hellmann; Eldad Melamed

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
394 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-3185

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A variety of movement disorders may occur during the course of prion disease. We describe a unique patient who had focal upper limb dystonia as the presenting symptom of familial codon 200 mutation‐positive Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease. © 2002 Movement Disorder Society

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