Myoclonus and adult coeliac disease.
A 56-year-old woman with coeliac disease developed myoclonus of cortical origin and palatal myoclonus with lesions of subcortical white matter on magnetic resonance imaging. Myoclonus can thus be a prominent feature of coeliac disease encephalopathy. A slight vitamin E deficiency was found but does not satisfactorily explain this myoclonic encephalopathy, which remains of unknown origin.
Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France.
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D002446:Celiac Disease / Q000150:complications*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009207:Myoclonus / Q000150:complications*; D014811:Vitamin E Deficiency