Hyperglycemic choreoathetosis: Role of the putamen in pathogenesis

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 915-919

  Kandiah, Nagaendran ^a   Tan, Kevin ^a   Lim, C C Tchoyoson ^a,b   Venketasubramanian, Narayanaswamy ^a  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Choreoathetosis; Hyperglycemia; Hyperviscosity; Striatum; putamen

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLUCOSE; HALOPERIDOL; INOSITOL; TETRABENAZINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE BRAIN LEVEL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD OSMOLARITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE STUDY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHOREOATHETOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIC CHOREOATHETOSIS; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOREA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PUTAMEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67651165324     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22277     Document Type: Article

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