Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after extracranial dura mater embolization for a nasopharyngeal angiofibroma

Neurology. 1997 May;48(5):1451-3. doi: 10.1212/wnl.48.5.1451.

Abstract

We report a 25-year-old man with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) who had received dura mater embolization in the external carotid artery for a nasopharyngeal angiofibroma 90 months earlier. The patient was heterozygotous (Met/Val) at codon 129. This case suggests that dura mater embolization can be responsible for the CJD.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Angiofibroma / metabolism
  • Angiofibroma / pathology
  • Angiofibroma / therapy*
  • Cerebellum / metabolism
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / etiology*
  • Dura Mater / transplantation*
  • Embolization, Therapeutic / adverse effects*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / therapy*
  • PrP 27-30 Protein / metabolism

Substances

  • PrP 27-30 Protein