Chorea as a paraneoplastic complication of Hodgkin's disease.
Neurologic complications of Hodgkin's disease (HD) include both metastatic and non-metastatic involvement of the nervous system. There are at least five paraneoplastic syndromes associated with HD but chorea has not been described. We report the first choreiform disorder as a paraneoplastic complication of HD and only the second case of paraneoplastic chorea in the literature.
Batchelor
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Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA.
Platten
M
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Palmer-Toy
D E
DE
Hunter
G J
GJ
Lev
M H
MH
Dalmau
J
J
Hochberg
F H
FH
D000368:Aged; D002819:Chorea / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed