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2018

A Unique Case with Oral Dyskinesia, Chorea, Ataxia, and Mild Cognitive Impairment with Caudate Atrophy and Characteristic Brain Calcifications

INTERNAL MEDICINE
  • Nozomi Flishikawa
  • ,
  • Yusuke Fukui
  • ,
  • Kota Sato
  • ,
  • Mami Takemoto
  • ,
  • Tom Yamashita
  • ,
  • Yasuyuki Ohta
  • ,
  • Koji Abe

Volume
57
Number
16
First page
2399
Last page
2402
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.2169/internalmedicine.9454-17
Publisher
JAPAN SOC INTERNAL MEDICINE

The authors report a man who developed oral dyskinesia at 46 years of age, followed by slowly progressive choreic movement and mild cognitive impairment over 20 years. He showed caudate atrophy and four types of intracranial calcification in the hippocampus (dot-like), cerebellar white matter (vague-mass), occipital cortices (laminar), and cerebral white matter (linear). Linear-calcification in the corona radiata seems to be deposition along small veins, which may be related to the white matter changes and to the decreased regional cerebral blood flow in the frontal and parietal lobes. The present case shows a slowly progressive disease with caudate atrophy and characteristic brain calcifications.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.9454-17
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000441994500019&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.2169/internalmedicine.9454-17
  • ISSN : 0918-2918
  • eISSN : 1349-7235
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000441994500019

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