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The occurrence of two different dementing diseases, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and normal-pressure hydrocephalus in a single patient is described. The inefficacy of a shunt procedure in this particular case, and the need of a brain biopsy in patients with normal-pressure hydrocephalus before undergoing cerebrospinal fluid shunting are stressed. A purely coincidental occurrence, or a possible aetiopathogenic relationship between both diseases are postulated.
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Gálvez, S., Ferrer, S., Cartier, L. et al. Subacute spongiform encephalopathy (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) Associated with normal-pressure hydrocephalus anatomoclinical report of one case. Acta neurochir 51, 227–232 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01406749
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