Pearls & Oy-sters: Rapid progression of prion disease associated with transverse myelitis
- 14 April 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 94 (15), e1670-e1672
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000009257
Abstract
Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (TM) or TM with inconclusive CSF findings should raise concern for prion disease (also known as Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease [CJD]) especially in the setting of associated cognitive impairment.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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