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Psychiatric Presentation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
A Case Report
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
Abstract
A patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is described. Many alternative psychiatric diagnoses were considered, and the true situation only became apparent late in the clinical course.
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