title: ["Pediatric" forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD)].
abstract: The authors propose the name of pediatric CJD disease (nvCJD) for those forms of this pathology which appear in childhood and adolescence (about twenty cases have been reported in Europe: 1996). The "pediatric form" differs both in terms of age ("teenagers" and also 16-year-old), but also owing to its long course (mean of 14 to 35 months) and the early onset of psychiatric and sensory symptoms. Until a few years ago, discussion of a new pediatric-adolescent form of the disease (new variant of CJD) would have been laughable.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università degli Studi, Torino.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nigro
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nigro
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans