Hemichorea in nonketotic hyperglycemia: Putamenal and cerebellum lesion on MR imaging

Abstract

Hemichorea with corresponding putamenal T1 hyper-intensity and T2 hypointensity on MR imaging has occasionally been reported in diabetes mellitus with nonketotic hyperglycemia. However, the signal intensity in pu-tamenal and cerebellum lesion on MR imaging, which is believed to be pathogenetically related to hemichorea, is rarely documented in diabetes mellitus with nonketotic hyperglycemia. We describe a 57-year-old man with nonketotic hyperglycemic hemichorea on his right arm and legs, whose signal intensity in putamenal and cerebellum lesion was demonstrated by MR imaging.

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Zhou, Y. , Wang, G. , Chen, X. , Yang, T. , Wang, Y. , Chang, C. , Wang, Y. , Gu, H. , Bao, J. , Xu, G. and Tong, D. (2012) Hemichorea in nonketotic hyperglycemia: Putamenal and cerebellum lesion on MR imaging. World Journal of Neuroscience, 2, 138-140. doi: 10.4236/wjns.2012.22020.

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