Chorea resulting from paraneoplastic encephalitis

✍ Scribed by Dr. J. G. Heckmann; C. J. G. Lang; A. Druschky; D. Claus; O. Bartels; B. Neundörfer

• Book ID: 102948636
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 653 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-3185
• DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120336

✦ Synopsis

In clinical practice, chorea is usually associated with the use of neuroleptic drugs, L-Dopa intoxication, or Huntington's disease (l), but a wide variety of neurologic disorders may show choreic symptoms (2).

Cases of paraneoplastic encephalitis are very rare and typically are associated with lung cancer. O n the basis of clinicopathologic syndromes, two forms are defined: "limbic encephalitis" with profound mental changes resembling herpes encephalitis, and "bulbar encephalitis" with profound brain-stem symptoms (3-5).

We report a 65-year-old man with an acquired choreic