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Clinical differential diagnosis of parkinsonism
R Benecke · Aktuelle Neurologie · 2005 · Heft 09
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A complete history remains critical in establishing the correct diagnosis. The physician must inquire about medications, possible environmental exposures, and family history of neurological disease, including essential tremor, dominantly inherited spinal cerebellar ataxias, and dementia, as well as parkinsonism. Parkinsonism in the adolescent or young adult should never be assumed to be idiopathic PD until other causes have been ruled out. If the clinical features resemble PD in all respects and there is an affected sibling, than there is a good possibility that disease is caused by recessive mutations in the pa…
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Dementia
Diagnosis
Accounting
Adolescent
Ataxia
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