[Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with unilateral onset: clinical profile and neuroimaging].

The usual clinical profile of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is that of subacute dementia and intractable myoclonus. Occasionally, some cases present peculiar clinical features. We report on a case of CJD with an unilateral onset showing remarkable neuroimaging features.

[Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia].

Objective: Vertebro-basilar dolichoectasia is an anomaly which has been well-known since the earliest days of clinical neurology. In spite of this neither the mechanism by which it is produced not its clinical importance are fully defined. In this paper we review basic clinical aspects of this pathology.