Erschienen in:
06.03.2019 | Letter to the Editor
Contralateral levodopa-induced hemichorea in a patient with severe asymmetric Parkinson’s disease
verfasst von:
Sang-Won Yoo, Joong-Seok Kim
Erschienen in:
Acta Neurologica Belgica
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Ausgabe 3/2020
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Excerpt
The motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are predominantly due to progressive degeneration of nigral dopaminergic neurons. In most cases, there is a substantial asymmetry of clinical symptoms from disease onset [
1]. Such lack of symmetry in the appearance of symptoms is so conspicuous that it serves as a clinical parameter to differentiate the disease from other neurodegenerative parkinsonian syndromes. …