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Letters to the Editor Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a 16-year-old in the UK SIR-Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has a peak incidence around age 65 and is extremely rare below the age of 30. CJD has been histologically confirmed in an 18-yearold male in the UK without a history of exposure to known risk factors for iatrogenic CJD or a family history of CJD (Bateman and others, this issue). We report another UK teenager with histopathologically confirmed CJD. A 16-year-old schoolgirl was first seen in September, 1994. In March, 1994, she injured her right foot during a fall and subsequently developed right-sided low lumbar backache and numbness in the fingertips and face. In August, 1994 she developed slurred speech, poor balance, clumsiness of her limbs, and urinary frequency. She had had measles in early childhood and a tonsillectomy in 1991. There was no history of treatment with human cadaveric pituitary-derived hormones, tissue grafting, or neurosurgical procedures. She was born in the UK of Turkish-Cypriot parents and lived in the UK, although she had visited Turkey and Cyprus many times during her childhood. There was no family history of dementia, ataxia, or

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Author

T.C. Britton; S. Al-Sarraj; C. Shaw; T. Campbell; J. Collinge

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

1995

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences