MRI in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Haik S, Dormont D, Faucheux BA, Marsault C, Hauw JJ. Prion protein deposits match magnetic resonance imaging signal abnormalities in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Ann Neurol. 2002;51:797-9.
High-signal abnormality in
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MRI in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
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MRI and neuropathology studies of two
patients, one with sporadic and other with new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease. Both had the same imaging findings.
Haik S, Dormont D, Faucheux BA, Marsault C, Hauw JJ. Prion protein deposits match magnetic resonance imaging signal abnormalities in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Ann Neurol. 2002;51:797-9. |
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Similar abnormalities, which on neuropathology corresponded to areas with high accumulation of abnormal prion protein | |