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Neurol Neurochir Pol
; 39(6): 520-3, 2005.
Article
in Polish
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16355311
ABSTRACT
The paper presents an overview of the current knowledge about the etiology, classification of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, abnormalities in the results of the EEG, MR and laboratory examinations in patients with this disease. The diagnostic value of the CSF examination for presence of protein 14-3-3 is underlined. The article is based on both Polish and foreign literature, describing mainly the diagnostics of CJD. The case of a female patient with dementia, mental disorders and neurological symptoms in the course of probable CJD, who was hospitalized at the Psychogeriatric Department of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Lublin is described.