Table 3. Patients without history of neurosurgery who had no periodic sharp-wave complexes during duration of CJD and hyperintensity lesions in thalamus diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the brain*.

Patient no.	Age at CJD onset, y/sex	Codon 129 of PRNP	Hyperintensity lesions on DW-MRI	Pathology findings
1	58/F	MM	CC, BG, Th	MM2+1
2	65/M	MM	CC, Th	MM2+1
3	61/F	MM	CC, BG, Th	ND
4	58/M	MV	BG, Th	MV2
5	73/F	MV	CC, Th	MV2
6	65/F	MV	CC, BG, Th	ND
7	65/F	MV	CC, Th	ND
8	75/F	VV	BG, Th	VV2
9	69/M	VV	BG, Th	VV2
10	52/M	VV	CC, BG, Th	ND
*BG, basal ganglia; CC, cerebral cortex; CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; DW-MRI, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging; MM, methionine homozygous; MM2+1, pathological features of MM2 and MM1 types of sporadic CJD; MV, methionine-valine; Th, thalamus; VV, valine homozygous.