The patient was a 51 year old woman with a history of
rapidly progressive cognitive impairment and ataxia of gait.
She developed
intermittant jerking motions of both arms and legs, and expired 4 months after
the first symptoms developed.
MR images revealed increased signal in basal
ganglia, which worsened over the two month time interval between images.
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this, use the timeline arrow buttons. Diagnosis at biopsy was Creutzfeld-Jakob
disease.
