Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Routine tonsil biopsy for diagnosis of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is not justified

BMJ. 1999 Feb 20;318(7182):538. doi: 10.1136/bmj.318.7182.538a.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy / methods*
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Palatine Tonsil / pathology*
  • Sensitivity and Specificity