Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease Associated with Wernicke Encephalopathy
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Subacute spongiform encephalopathy (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) with amyloid angiopathy.
A case is reported of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with amyloid infiltration of cerebral vessels. The duration of progressive dementia was only 4 months. Neuritic plaques were not a feature of the pathology. This report emphasises the association of spongiform encephalopathy with the presence of amyloid in the brain.
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0317-1671,2057-0155
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100027542