Chorea: Non-genetic causes

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 433-436

  Cardoso, Francisco ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Department of Neurology ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chorea; Drugs; Infections; Sydenham's chorea; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; METHADONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHOREA; CHOREA MINOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KETOGENIC DIET; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; REVIEW; STROKE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TIC; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOREATIC DISORDERS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

EID: 4043128764     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wco.0000137533.53620.59     Document Type: Review

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