A patient with 41 CAG repeats in SCA17 presenting with parkinsonism and chorea

Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2016 Jan:22:106-7. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.11.011. Epub 2015 Nov 14.

Authors

Hyeyoung Park¹, Beom Seok Jeon², Jung Hwan Shin¹, Sung-Hye Park³

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Neurology and Movement Disorder Center, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
² Departments of Neurology and Movement Disorder Center, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. Electronic address: brain@snu.ac.kr.
³ Departments of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

PMID: 26613966
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.11.011

No abstract available

Keywords: Chorea; Parkinsonism; Spinocerebellar ataxia type 17; Submandibular gland; Trinucleotide repeats.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Amantadine / therapeutic use
Antiparkinson Agents / therapeutic use
Benzothiazoles / therapeutic use
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Chorea / diagnostic imaging
Chorea / drug therapy
Chorea / physiopathology*
Humans
Levodopa / therapeutic use
Male
Middle Aged
Parkinsonian Disorders / diagnostic imaging
Parkinsonian Disorders / drug therapy
Parkinsonian Disorders / physiopathology*
Positron-Emission Tomography
Pramipexole
Spinocerebellar Ataxias / diagnostic imaging
Spinocerebellar Ataxias / drug therapy
Spinocerebellar Ataxias / genetics
Spinocerebellar Ataxias / physiopathology*
TATA-Box Binding Protein / genetics
Trinucleotide Repeats

Substances

Antiparkinson Agents
Benzothiazoles
TATA-Box Binding Protein
TBP protein, human
Levodopa
Pramipexole
Amantadine

Supplementary concepts

Spinocerebellar Ataxia 17