Progressive cognitive decline and myoclonus in a young woman: clinicopathological conference at the Edinburgh Advanced Neurology Course, 2007. Variant CJD. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

Pract Neurol. 2008 Oct;8(5):296-302. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.156844.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Accidental Falls
  • Adult
  • Blindness, Cortical / etiology
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Brain / physiopathology*
  • Cognition Disorders / etiology*
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Disease Progression
  • Electroencephalography
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Gliosis / etiology
  • Gliosis / pathology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Measles / complications
  • Measles virus / immunology
  • Myoclonus / etiology*
  • Oligoclonal Bands / immunology
  • Spasm / etiology
  • Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis / diagnosis*
  • Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis / physiopathology*
  • Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis / virology

Substances

  • Oligoclonal Bands