NR AKWF
AU Silburn,P.; Cervenakova,L.; Varghese,P.; Tannenberg,A.; Brown,P.; Boyle,R.
TI Fatal familial insomnia: a seventh family.
QU Neurology 1996 Nov; 47(5): 1326-8
PT journal article
AB A 60-year-old woman with a typical history of fatal familial insomnia (FFI) had FFI proven by histologic examination and molecular testing. Her son, who died at the age of 20 in 1978, had a rapidly progressive dementing illness without reported insomnia. He carried the characteristic mutation for FFI and is the youngest patient reported with this condition.
MH Adult; Case Report; Female; Human; Middle Age; Prion Diseases/*pathology; Thalamus/pathology
AD Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
SP englisch
PO USA