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Case Reports
. 2014 Aug 8;6(3):5519.
doi: 10.4081/ni.2014.5519. eCollection 2014 Aug 5.

Bilateral hemiballism-hemi-chorea presenting in a diabetes taiwanese woman

Chih Ming Lin  1 , Chi-Kuang Liu  1
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Bilateral hemiballism-hemi-chorea presenting in a diabetes taiwanese woman

Chih Ming Lin et al. Neurol Int. .

Abstract

Hemiballism-hemichorea (HB-HC) is a hyperkinetic disorder characterized by continuous involuntary movements of the extremities. It could be associated with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. A very few cases of bilateral HB-HC have been reported until today. We describe here the case of a Taiwanese woman (85 years old) presenting with bilateral HB-HC and diabetes mellitus.

Keywords: Taiwan; diabetes mellitus; hemiballism-hemichorea.

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Conflict of interests: the authors declare no potential conflict of interests.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Gadolinium-enhanced brain magnetic resonance imaging shows hyper-intensity signal over bilateral putamen regions in T1 weighted imaging.
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