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Fogel B, Wu M, Kremen S, Murthy K, Jackson G, Vanek Z
Department of Neurology, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatal spongiform encephalopathy, which typically presents with a rapidly progressing dementia and additional neurological findings that can be quite variable and diverse. Here we report the unusual case of a patient who presented with left alien limb sign without overt cognitive impairment and was ultimately diagnosed with pathologically confirmed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. (c) 2006 Movement Disorder Society.
Published 22 March 2006 in Mov Disord.
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