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Rapidly evolving EEG changes in a case of alzheimer disease
Author(s) -
Ehle Albert L.,
Johnson Peter C.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.410010615
Subject(s) - electroencephalography , pathological , disease , autopsy , dementia , alzheimer's disease , degenerative disease , neuroscience , medicine , psychology , pathology
A patient who presented with a subacutely evolving dementia and electroencephalographic changes resembling those reported in Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease was found at autopsy to have Alzheimer disease. Despite typical clinical and electroencephalographic findings, accurate discrimination between these two diseases depends on pathological examination.