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Chorea as a presenting feature of variant Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease
Author(s) -
McKee David,
Talbot Paul
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
movement disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.352
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1531-8257
pISSN - 0885-3185
DOI - 10.1002/mds.10423
Subject(s) - chorea , prodrome , disease , psychiatry , feature (linguistics) , degenerative disease , dementia , movement disorders , medicine , psychology , neuroscience , pediatrics , psychosis , pathology , philosophy , linguistics
We report on a patient with pathologically proven variant Creutzfeld‐Jakob disease in whom chorea was a presenting feature of the disease, and was unaccompanied by the typical prodrome of psychiatric disturbance or sensory symptoms. © 2003 Movement Disorder Society