The differential diagnosis of chorea / edited by Ruth H. Walker.

By:

Walker, Ruth H

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: xxi, 452 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780195393514 (hbk.)
0195393511 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

616.83 22 WAL

NLM classification:

WL 390

Contents:

1. Introduction : an approach to the patient with chorea 2. Functional anatomy of chorea 3. Huntington disease 4. Benign hereditary chorea 5. Huntington's disease-like 2 6. Chorea-acanthocytosis 7. McLeod syndrome 8. Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 9. Neuroferritinopathy 10. Aceruloplasminemia / Frank Skidmore. Chorea in prion diseases 11. Chorea in inherited ataxias 12. Inherited metabolic diseases causing chorea in childhood 13. Medication-induced chorea 14. Metabolic causes of chorea 15. Structural causes of chorea 16. Sydenham chorea 17. Paraneoplastic and other autoimmune choreas 18. Paroxysmal chorea 19. Psychiatric aspects of the neurodegenerative choreas 20. Psychogenic chorea 21. Treatment of chorea

Summary: 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 genetic test for this disorder it has become apparent that a small but significant proportion of patients with this phenotype do not have this diagnosis. Although less common than Huntington's disease, it is vital to correctly diagnose these patients with advances in molecular medicine, it is now easier to i.

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1. Introduction : an approach to the patient with chorea
2. Functional anatomy of chorea 3. Huntington disease
4. Benign hereditary chorea
5. Huntington's disease-like 2 6. Chorea-acanthocytosis
7. McLeod syndrome
8. Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 9. Neuroferritinopathy 10. Aceruloplasminemia / Frank Skidmore. Chorea in prion diseases 11. Chorea in inherited ataxias 12. Inherited metabolic diseases causing chorea in childhood
13. Medication-induced chorea
14. Metabolic causes of chorea 15. Structural causes of chorea 16. Sydenham chorea 17. Paraneoplastic and other autoimmune choreas
18. Paroxysmal chorea
19. Psychiatric aspects of the neurodegenerative choreas
20. Psychogenic chorea 21. Treatment 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 genetic test for this disorder it has become apparent that a small but significant proportion of patients with this phenotype do not have this diagnosis. Although less common than Huntington's disease, it is vital to correctly diagnose these patients with advances in molecular medicine, it is now easier to i.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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