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Isolated myoclonic alien hand as the sole presentation of pathologically established Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a report of two patients
  1. D J L MacGowana,
  2. N Delantya,
  3. F Petitoa,
  4. M Edgarb,
  5. J Mastriannic,
  6. S J DeArmondd
  1. aDepartment of Neurology, bDepartment of Neuropathology, New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, USA, cDepartment of Neurology, dDepartment of Neuropathology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
  1. Dr D MacGowan, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Medical Center, 317 East 17th Street, New York City, NY 10003, USA.

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.

  • alien hand
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • clinical presentation

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.63.3.404

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