Computerized tomography in hereditary nonprogressive chorea.
A 56-year-old woman had a 50-year history of childhood-onset chorea without progressive neurologic deficit. The patient's father had a lifelong extrapyramidal disorder characterized by a head-nodding tremor and involuntary movements especially evident with anxiety. The computerized tomographic scan was normal, without evidence of cortical or caudate atrophy. The computerized tomographic scan supports the notion of a functional rather than a structural lesion, and may aid in the discrimination of hereditary nonprogressive chorea from more devastating forms of hereditary chorea.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006816:Huntington Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed