A new case of Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease associated with human growth hormone therapy in New Zealand
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 38 (7) , 1128
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.38.7.1128
Abstract
A clinically atypical, neuropathologically verified case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is described in a 32-year-old New Zealand woman with idiopathic hypopituitarism who had been treated in late adolescence (1970 to 1973) with human growth hormone processed from pooled cadaveric pituitary glands.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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