Differential Diagnosis of Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease
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Differential diagnosis of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease.
OBJECTIVES To identify the misdiagnoses of patients with sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (sCJD) during the course of their disease and determine which medical specialties saw patients with sCJD prior to the correct diagnosis being made and at what point in the disease course a correct diagnosis was made. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. SETTING A specialty referral center of a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Neurology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0003-9942
DOI: 10.1001/2013.jamaneurol.79