The differential diagnosis of chorea / edited by Ruth H. Walker. - 1 online resource (475 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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.

9780199742479


Chorea--Diagnosis.
Diagnosis, Differential.


Electronic books.

RC389 / .D54 2011

616.8/3