Choreiform Movement Disorder Secondary to Intracerebral Cavernoma: Case Report
Banu Özen Barut1, Bekir Enes Demiryürek1, Özlem Türksoy2
1Department Of Neurology, Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi University, Turkey
2Department Of Radiology, Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi University, Zonguldak, Turkey
Keywords: Chorea, vascular malformation, cavernoma
Abstract
Although vascular factors are considered primarily in the etiology of hemichorea among the elderly, chorea related to congenital vascular malformations including
cavernous angioma are reported very rarely. We found cavernous angioma to be the cause of persistant, unilateral chorea localized to the right lower extremity in a
83 year-old woman. In this article we would like to highlight the etiology of chorea in patients with late onset movement disorders. (Turkish Journal of Neurology
2013; 19: 60-2)