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Tourette syndrome in the elderly

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Anne Hartman; Rasiah Yuvarajan

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Weight: 240 KB
Volume: 9
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/gps.930090210

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✦ Synopsis

An 82-year-old housewife presented with motor and phonic tics and coprolalia. These had developed in the months following an acute confusional state associated with posterior neck pain 10 years previously. Neurological examination, including MRI scan, was otherwise normal. The index illness was presumed to be encephalitis lethargica.

KEY woms-Tourette syndrome, coprolalia, elderly, encephalitis lethargica.

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