title: Focal involvement and lateralization in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: correlation of clinical, electroencephalographic and neuropathological findings.
abstract: Focal involvement can be assumed in the initial stage of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). We correlated the clinical, electroencephalographic and neuropathological findings in 13 cases of CJD with special reference to focal or lateralized changes. Eight cases showed clinical and 9 electroencephalographic signs of asymmetry. Four cases with a course of the disease shorter than 12 months presented circumscribed tissue alterations at autopsy. Cases with a clinical duration longer than 12 months had pathological changes involving both hemispheres symmetrically. The infectious agent seems to spread through the entire brain within a period of 12 months.
authors.affiliation: Neurological Clinic, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, FRG.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Heye
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cervós-Navarro
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged