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[Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome with reference to their differential diagnosis]
1Bezirkskrankenhauses in Haar bei München.
Abstract:
Differential diagnosis has quite often proved to be difficult between CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB disease (CJD) and GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER syndrome. Clinical and morphological aspects as well as the pathological course and differential diagnosis of CJD and Gerstmann-Strüssler syndrome are discussed in some detail. Slow influence can be morphologically diagnosed with reference to the overall pattern of individual alterations with inclusion of scrapie-associated fibrils. This morphological diagnosis can be verified by experimental inoculation to susceptible animals.
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