Reply to letter regarding the article entitled: ‘Rapidly progressive sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: isolated Heidenhain variant or a combination with PRES?’

Pedro Henrique Almeida Fraiman; Carolina Militão Teixeira; Juliano César Dantas de Oliveira; Thadeu Alexandre Paulino de Sousa; Manuel Moreira-Neto; Clecio de Oliveira Godeiro-Junior

doi:10.1590/0004-282X-ANP-2021-0206r

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2021; 79(09): 855
DOI: 10.1590/0004-282X-ANP-2021-0206r

Letter

Reply to letter regarding the article entitled: ‘Rapidly progressive sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: isolated Heidenhain variant or a combination with PRES?’

Resposta à carta referente ao artigo intitulado: ‘Doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob esporádica rapidamente progressiva: variante Heidenhain isolada ou PRES combinada?’

Pedro Henrique Almeida Fraiman

¹Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Hospital Universitário Onofre Lopes, Divisão de Neurologia, Natal RN, Brazil.

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Carolina Militão Teixeira

¹Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Hospital Universitário Onofre Lopes, Divisão de Neurologia, Natal RN, Brazil.

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Juliano César Dantas de Oliveira

²Casa de Saúde São Lucas, Divisão de Radiologia, Natal RN, Brazil.

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Thadeu Alexandre Paulino de Sousa

²Casa de Saúde São Lucas, Divisão de Radiologia, Natal RN, Brazil.

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Manuel Moreira-Neto

³Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Hospital Universitário Onofre Lopes, Divisão de Radiologia, Natal RN, Brazil.

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Clecio de Oliveira Godeiro-Junior

¹Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Hospital Universitário Onofre Lopes, Divisão de Neurologia, Natal RN, Brazil.

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