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[Association of Wilson's disease with non wilsonian extrapyramidal syndrome in the same family]
E R Barbosa1, U P Kostow, R Hirsch
1Divisão de Clinica Neurológica do Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.
Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquiatria
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
Movement disorders, mostly dystonia, sometimes occur in heterozygotes for Wilson's disease (WD). A patient with metabolic abnormalities suggestive of heterozygote for WD and dystonia is reported. His niece showed the typical neurological and metabolic abnormalities of WD. This rare coincidence and the etiopathogenic mechanisms involved are discussed.