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1 online resource (xxi, 452 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Chorea -- Diagnosis
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Diagnosis, Differential.
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Chorea -- diagnosis
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Chorea -- complications
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Chorea -- etiology
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Diagnosis, Differential
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Diagnosis, Differential
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walker, Ruth H
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| ISBN |
9780199742479 |
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0199742472 |
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