ISOLATED MYOCLONIC ALIEN HAND AS THE SOLE PRESENTATION OF PATHOLOGICALLY ESTABLISHED CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB-DISEASE - A REPORT OF 2 PATIENTS

Authors
MACGOWAN DJL DELANTY N PETITO F EDGAR M MASTRIANNI J DEARMOND SJ
Citation
Djl. Macgowan et al., ISOLATED MYOCLONIC ALIEN HAND AS THE SOLE PRESENTATION OF PATHOLOGICALLY ESTABLISHED CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB-DISEASE - A REPORT OF 2 PATIENTS, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 63(3), 1997, pp. 404-407
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00223050
Volume
63
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
404 - 407
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3050(1997)63:3<404:IMAHAT>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease may have many atypical presentations before the development of classic progressive dementia and startle myoclonus. In two patients with pathologically established disease association w ith a progressive alien hand syndrome was the sole initial manifestati on of the disease.