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[Chorea disclosing polycythemia and renal adenocarcinoma]
J M Chamouard1, A Smagghe, B H Malalanirina
1Service de Neurologie, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris.
Revue Neurologique
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 79-year-old woman had chorea complicating polycythaemia. The polycythaemia and the chorea disappeared after surgical removal of a renal carcinoma. The literature on polycythaemic chorea is reviewed and its pathophysiology discussed.