title: [Idiopathic putamino-caudal atrophy: a rare cause of hemidystonia].
abstract: Hemidystonia, a rare presentation of dystonia, is usually secondary to various insults of the controlateral basal ganglia. The following report describes hemidystonia which occurred at the age of 16 years. Idiopathic atrophy of the controlateral caudate nucleus and putamen seemed to be the only aetiology.
authors.affiliation: Unité Neurologique, Hôpital Bikur Cholim, Jérusalem, Israël.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Korn-Lubetzki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reches
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001284:Atrophy; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000473:pathology*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D004421:Dystonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011699:Putamen / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Atrophie putamino-caudée idiopathique: une cause rare d'hémidystonie.