Genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mimicking chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.

Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm

Departments of Neurology (D.W., M.S., P.V.D.), Radiology (P.D.), and Pathology (T.T.), University Hospitals Leuven; KU Leuven (M.S.), University of Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, Experimental Neurology, Laboratory for Cognitive Neurology, Leuven; Neurodegenerative Brain Diseases Group (C.V.B.), Department of Molecular Genetics, VIB, Antwerp; Laboratory of Neurogenetics (C.V.B.), Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Institute of Neurology (G.G.K.), Medical University of Vienna, Austria; KU Leuven (P.V.D.), University of Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, Experimental Neurology and Leuven Research Institute for Neuroscience and Disease, Leuven; and VIB (P.V.D.), Vesalius Research Center, Laboratory of Neurobiology, Leuven, Belgium.

Published: December 2015

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