An unusual presentation of Huntington’s disease

We describe the case of a 59‐year‐old woman who exhibited psychotic symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and restlessness. While the clinical picture and 18F‐FDG PET/CT suggested the presence of a tauopathy, especially frontotemporal dementia or progressive supranuclear palsy, genetic testing eventually...

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Autores principales: Schulze Westhoff, Martin, Osmanovic, Alma, Meissner, Catharina, Heck, Johannes, Mahmoudi, Nima, Hendrich, Corinna, Berding, Georg, Seifert, Johanna, Bleich, Stefan, Frieling, Helge, Krüger, Tillmann, Groh, Adrian
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8283861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34295499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4547
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author Schulze Westhoff, Martin
Osmanovic, Alma
Meissner, Catharina
Heck, Johannes
Mahmoudi, Nima
Hendrich, Corinna
Berding, Georg
Seifert, Johanna
Bleich, Stefan
Frieling, Helge
Krüger, Tillmann
Groh, Adrian
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Osmanovic, Alma
Meissner, Catharina
Heck, Johannes
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description We describe the case of a 59‐year‐old woman who exhibited psychotic symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and restlessness. While the clinical picture and 18F‐FDG PET/CT suggested the presence of a tauopathy, especially frontotemporal dementia or progressive supranuclear palsy, genetic testing eventually revealed Huntington's disease.
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spelling pubmed-82838612021-07-21 An unusual presentation of Huntington’s disease Schulze Westhoff, Martin Osmanovic, Alma Meissner, Catharina Heck, Johannes Mahmoudi, Nima Hendrich, Corinna Berding, Georg Seifert, Johanna Bleich, Stefan Frieling, Helge Krüger, Tillmann Groh, Adrian Clin Case Rep Case Reports We describe the case of a 59‐year‐old woman who exhibited psychotic symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and restlessness. While the clinical picture and 18F‐FDG PET/CT suggested the presence of a tauopathy, especially frontotemporal dementia or progressive supranuclear palsy, genetic testing eventually revealed Huntington's disease. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8283861/ /pubmed/34295499 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4547 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bleich, Stefan
Frieling, Helge
Krüger, Tillmann
Groh, Adrian
An unusual presentation of Huntington’s disease
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