Akiyo Shinde, Takenobu Kunieda, Yoshimi Kinoshita, Reika Wate, Satoshi Nakano, Hidefumi Ito, Masahito Yamada, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto, Yosikazu Nakamura, Sadayuki Matsumoto, Hirofumi Kusaka
Eleven years after a brief visit to some European countries, a 48-year-old Japanese man developed writing difficulty, irritability and general fatigue. Then he complained of dysesthetic pains in his legs, for which benzodiazepines were prescribed. However, at the time pulvinar sign was retrospectively confirmed on brain MRI. Eighteen months after the onset, his gait became ataxic with rapid deterioration of mental status over the following several months. Thirty-one months after the onset, he became akinetic and mute with periodic synchronous discharges on EEG, and died at the age of 51...
December 2009: Neuropathology: Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology