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. 2016 Oct;74(10):781-784.
doi: 10.1590/0004-282X20160126.

Unusual motor and non-motor symptoms and signs in the early stage of Parkinson's disease

Hélio A G Teive  1 , Délcio C Bertucci Filho  2 , Renato P Munhoz  3
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Unusual motor and non-motor symptoms and signs in the early stage of Parkinson's disease

Hélio A G Teive et al. Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2016 Oct.
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Abstract

Objective: Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) may present with unusual motor and non-motor symptoms and signs in the early stage of the disease.

Methods: Cases were collected over a five-year period at two tertiary movement disorders clinics. All had a diagnosis of PD with unusual presentations defined retrospectively as the presence of complaints not objectively related to any of the classic cardinal signs of parkinsonism or the typical early non-motor features of PD.

Results: A total of 15 early PD patients fulfilled the proposed criteria, presenting with symptoms such as atypical tremors, shoulder pain, signs related to the rigid akinetic syndrome, as well as cases of asthenia, rhinorrhea, parosmia, dysgeusia, nocturnal sialorrhea, and color discrimination disorders.

Conclusions: Unusual motor and non-motor symptoms and signs in the early stage of PD can be difficult to interpret. Specialists should be aware of these conditions as clues to a potential diagnosis.

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