A case of Fahr's disease presenting as chorea successfully treated by the use of quetiapine

Clinical Medicine: Case Reports

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 63-65

  Kono, Syoichiro ^a   Manabe, Yasuhiro ^a   Tanaka, Tomotaka ^a   Fujii, Daiki ^a   Sakai, Yasuko ^a   Narai, Hisashi ^a   Omori, Nobuhiko ^a   Abe, Koji ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia calcification; Fahr's disease; Quetiapine

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LACTIC ACID; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE; PYRUVIC ACID; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; TIAPRIDE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHOREA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG USE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; FAHR DISEASE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANOIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 76749125799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/ccrep.s3423     Document Type: Article

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