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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease presenting with isolated progressive non-fluent aphasia in a young woman

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We would like to acknowledge the patient, her husband, and her family for the collaboration.

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  1. Alberto Terrin and Andrea Barp are contributed equally to this work

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  1. Department of Neuroscience (DNS), University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 5, 35128, Padova, Italy

    Alberto Terrin, Andrea Barp, Paolo Gallo & Annachiara Cagnin

  2. Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine, and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Policlinico G. B. Rossi, Verona, Italy

    Gianluigi Zanusso

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Terrin, A., Barp, A., Zanusso, G. et al. Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease presenting with isolated progressive non-fluent aphasia in a young woman. Neurol Sci 38, 1535–1537 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-017-2968-8

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