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The differential diagnosis of chorea /

The involuntary movement disorder known as chorea can be due to a wide variety of neurological conditions, both genetic and acquired. This volume provides a comprehensive account of these conditions. While Huntington's disease is the prototypic inherited chorea, with the development of the gene...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Walker, Ruth H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : an approach to the patient with chorea / Ruth H. Walker
  • Functional anatomy of chorea / Jonathan W. Mink
  • Huntington disease / Rebecca M. Gilbert and Steven Frucht
  • Benign hereditary chorea / Octavian R. Adam and Joseph Jankovic
  • Huntington's disease-like 2 / Dobrila D. Rudnicki and Russell L. Margolis
  • Chorea-acanthocytosis / Benedikt Bader, Adrian Danek, and Ruth H. Walker
  • McLeod syndrome / Hans H. Jung
  • Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation / Penelope Hogarth and Susan Hayflick
  • Neuroferritinopathy / Alisdair McNeill and Patrick F. Chinnery
  • Aceruloplasminemia / Frank Skidmore.
  • Chorea in prion diseases / Nayana Lahiri, Simon Mead, and Sarah J. Tabrizi
  • Chorea in inherited ataxias / Guilherme G. Riccioppo Rodrigues and Jennifer G. Goldman
  • Inherited metabolic diseases causing chorea in childhood / Donald L. Gilbert
  • Medication-induced chorea / Marta San Luciano and Rachel Saunders-Pullman
  • Metabolic causes of chorea / S. Elizabeth Zauber and Katie Kompoliti
  • Structural causes of chorea / Nora L. Chan and Winona Tse
  • Sydenham chorea / Esther Cubo
  • Paraneoplastic and other autoimmune choreas / Michael H. Pourfar
  • Paroxysmal chorea / Camilla Kilbane
  • Psychiatric aspects of the neurodegenerative choreas / Mark Walterfang, Andrew Evans, and Dennis Velakoulis
  • Psychogenic chorea / John C. Morgan, Shyamal H. Mehta, and Kapil D. Sethi
  • Treatment of chorea / Brandon Barton and Kathleen M. Shannon.