Assessment of patients with isolated or combined dystonia: an update on dystonia syndromes
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Assessment of patients with isolated or combined dystonia: an update on dystonia syndromes
Abstract
The clinical evaluation of a patient with dystonia is a stepwise process, beginning with classification of the phenomenology of the movement disorder(s), then formulation of the dystonia syndrome, which, in turn, leads to a targeted etiological differential diagnosis. In recent years, there have been significant advances in our understanding of the etiological basis of dystonia, aided especially by discoveries in imaging and genetics. In this review, we provide an update on the assessment of a patient with dystonia, including the phenomenology of dystonia and highlighting how to integrate clinical, imaging, blood, and neurophysiological investigations in order to formulate a dystonia syndrome. Evolving or emerging dystonia syndromes are reviewed, and potential etiologies of these as well as established dystonia syndromes listed to guide diagnostic testing. © 2013 Movement Disorder Society.
Keywords: diagnosis; differential diagnosis; etiology; phenomenology; secondary dystonia.
© 2013 Movement Disorder Society.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors report no relevant conflicts of interest regarding this research.
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