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Case Reports
. 2018 Oct 9:8:593.
doi: 10.7916/D8VM5W0N. eCollection 2018.

An Unusual and Intriguing Presentation of Sydenham's Chorea

Sahil Mehta  1 , Manoj Kumar Goyal  1 , Camilla Kilbane  2 , Rajender Kumar  3 , Vivek Lal  1
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Case Reports

An Unusual and Intriguing Presentation of Sydenham's Chorea

Sahil Mehta et al. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). .
No abstract available

Keywords: Chorea; Sydenham’s chorea; antineuronal antibodies; dopamine receptor; intravenous immunoglobulin.

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Funding: None. Conflicts of Interest: The authors report no conflict of interest. Ethics Statement: All patients that appear on video have provided written informed consent; authorization for the videotaping and for publication of the videotape was provided.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. FDG PET Scan. FDG PET scan showing mild hypermetabolism in bilateral caudate nuclei.
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