Isolated myoclonic alien hand as the sole presentation of pathologically established Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a report of two patients.

MacGowan, D J; Delanty, N; Petito, F; Edgar, M; Mastrianni, J; DeArmond, S J · J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry · 1997

case_report · Level V

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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 with a progressive alien hand syndrome was the sole initial manifestation of the disease.

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