title: [Chorea disclosing polycythemia and renal adenocarcinoma].
abstract: A 79-year-old woman had chorea complicating polycythaemia. The polycythaemia and the chorea disappeared after surgical removal of a renal carcinoma. The literature on polycythaemic chorea is reviewed and its pathophysiology discussed.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurologie, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chamouard
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smagghe
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Malalanirina
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Davous
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poisson
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002819:Chorea / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D009392:Nephrectomy; D011086:Polycythemia / Q000209:etiology*; D012074:Remission Induction
vernacular_title: Chorée révélatrice d'une polyglobulie et d'un adénocarcinome rénal.