title: [Wilson's disease: study of 6 neurologic forms observed at the University Hospital in Conakry].
abstract: This report describes 6 cases of Wilson's disease observed at the University Hospital Center in Conakry, Guinea. Presenting symptoms involved extrapyramidal syndrome in 4 cases, psychomotor epilepsy in 1, and confusional syndrome in 1 case. Diagnosis was based on neuropsychic manifestations, Kayser-Fleicher corneal ring, liver failure, and impaired copper metabolism. Brain CT-scan depicted normal features in 3 cases, symmetric hypodensity of the lenticular nucleus in one, discrete ventricular dilatation of in one a and cortico-subcoetical atrophy in one.
authors.affiliation: Service de neurologie, Hôpital Ignace Deen, Conakry, Guinée.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cissé
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coulibaly
authors.forename: I S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Souaré
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Cissé
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nabé
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Camara
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cissé
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Camara
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bangoura
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sylla
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dia
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Da Silva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001480:Basal Ganglia Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D003221:Confusion / Q000209:etiology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D016701:Guinea; D006527:Hepatolenticular Degeneration / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed