A case of dementia with Lewy bodies that temporarily showed symptoms similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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Patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies mistaken for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
OBJECTIVES To describe the clinical presentation of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) who were suspected of having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and to investigate whether current clinical diagnostic criteria cover these atypical forms of AD and DLB. METHODS Brains from necropsy were examined for the diagnosis of CJD at the German reference centre for...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychogeriatrics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1346-3500
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2010.00336.x