Differential diagnosis of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
RW Paterson, CC Torres-Chae, AL Kuo… - Archives of …, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Objectives To identify the misdiagnoses of patients with sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
(sCJD) during the course of their disease and determine which medical specialties saw
patients with sCJD prior to the correct diagnosis being made and at what point in the
disease course a correct diagnosis was made. Design Retrospective medical record review.
Setting A specialty referral center of a tertiary academic medical center. Participants One
hundred sixty-three serial patients over a 5.5-year period who ultimately had pathologically …
(sCJD) during the course of their disease and determine which medical specialties saw
patients with sCJD prior to the correct diagnosis being made and at what point in the
disease course a correct diagnosis was made. Design Retrospective medical record review.
Setting A specialty referral center of a tertiary academic medical center. Participants One
hundred sixty-three serial patients over a 5.5-year period who ultimately had pathologically …