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Patient with rapidly evolving neurological disease with neuropathological lesions of Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease, Lewy body dementia, chronic subcortical vascular encephalopathy and meningothelial meningioma
Author(s) -
Vita Maria Gabriella,
Tiple Dorina,
Bizzarro Alessandra,
Ladogana Anna,
Colaizzo Elisa,
Capellari Sabina,
Rossi Marcello,
Parchi Piero,
Masullo Carlo,
Pocchiari Maurizio
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
neuropathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.701
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1440-1789
pISSN - 0919-6544
DOI - 10.1111/neup.12343
Subject(s) - medicine , dementia , lewy body , disease , pathology , vascular dementia , encephalopathy , chronic traumatic encephalopathy , differential diagnosis , dementia with lewy bodies , creutzfeldt jakob syndrome , meningioma , psychiatry , prion protein , poison control , environmental health , injury prevention , concussion
We report a case of rapidly evolving neurological disease in a patient with neuropathological lesions of Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease (CJD), Lewy body dementia (LBD), chronic subcortical vascular encephalopathy and meningothelial meningioma. The coexistence of severe multiple pathologies in a single patient strengthens the need to perform accurate clinical differential diagnoses in rapidly progressive dementias.

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