Functional and Idiopathic Cervical Dystonia in Two Family Members: A Challenging Diagnosis

BACKGROUND: Cervical dystonia (CD) often occurs in the same family. CASE REPORT: A 40-year-old woman presented with a longstanding history of CD and signs of inconsistency at history taking and neurological examination; her 65-year-old mother was diagnosed instead with idiopathic CD, which had begun...

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Autores principales: Antelmi, Elena, Conti, Enrico, Carecchio, Myriam, Tinazzi, Michele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354397
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tohm.558
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author Antelmi, Elena
Conti, Enrico
Carecchio, Myriam
Tinazzi, Michele
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description BACKGROUND: Cervical dystonia (CD) often occurs in the same family. CASE REPORT: A 40-year-old woman presented with a longstanding history of CD and signs of inconsistency at history taking and neurological examination; her 65-year-old mother was diagnosed instead with idiopathic CD, which had begun 7 years after the onset of CD in her daughter. DISCUSSION: Idiopathic and functional CD share common clinical and endophenotypic traits, making the differential diagnosis particularly challenging. A complete examination is warranted.
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spelling pubmed-77317152020-12-21 Functional and Idiopathic Cervical Dystonia in Two Family Members: A Challenging Diagnosis Antelmi, Elena Conti, Enrico Carecchio, Myriam Tinazzi, Michele Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y) Case Report BACKGROUND: Cervical dystonia (CD) often occurs in the same family. CASE REPORT: A 40-year-old woman presented with a longstanding history of CD and signs of inconsistency at history taking and neurological examination; her 65-year-old mother was diagnosed instead with idiopathic CD, which had begun 7 years after the onset of CD in her daughter. DISCUSSION: Idiopathic and functional CD share common clinical and endophenotypic traits, making the differential diagnosis particularly challenging. A complete examination is warranted. Ubiquity Press 2020-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7731715/ /pubmed/33354397 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tohm.558 Text en Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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