title: Undulating tongue in Wilson's disease.
abstract: We report an unusual occurrence of involuntary movement involving the tongue in a patient with confirmed Wilson's disease (WD). She manifested with slow, hypophonic speech and dysphagia of 4 months duration, associated with pseudobulbar affect, apathy, drooling and dystonia of upper extremities of 1 month duration. Our patient had an uncommon tongue movement which was arrhythmic. There was no feature to suggest tremor, chorea or dystonia. It might be described as athetoid as there was a writhing quality, but of lesser amplitude. Thus, the phenomenology was uncommon in clinical practice and the surface of the tongue was seen to "ripple" like a liquid surface agitated by an object or breeze. Isolated lingual dyskinesias are rare in WD. It is important to evaluate them for WD, a potentially treatable disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagappa
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroimaging and Interventional Radiology (NIIR), National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: Js
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saini
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: Ps
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bindu
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: Ab
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taly
keywords: Dyskinesia; Wilson's disease; undulating tongue