title: Possible Parkinson's disease revealed by a pure head resting tremor.
abstract: Head tremor is very unusual in Parkinson's disease (PD). Five PD patients presenting a head tremor during the disease evolution have recently been reported. Here we describe a 74 year-old woman with a pure head resting tremor. The tremor was responsive to levodopa and had a 4.7 Hz frequency. A [(123)I]FP-CIT SPECT imaging confirmed a reduction of tracer uptake in the right striatum consistent with PD, that should be confirmed by long-term follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Université Lyon I, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Service de Neurologie C, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xie-Brustolin
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gervais-Bernard
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Vallet
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Broussolle
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thobois
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000978:Antiparkinson Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000187:drug effects; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D019416:Head Movements; D006801:Humans; D007980:Levodopa / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014202:Tremor / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D000978:Antiparkinson Agents; D007980:Levodopa