corticopallidospinal degeneration

corticopallidospinal degeneration

An obsolete synonym for several distinct conditions:
(1) Spastic pseudosclerosis, OMIM:270900 (described in 1940 in three children; uncertain to be a disease a sui generis);
(2) Corticostriatospinal degeneration;
(3) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, see there.