choreatic disease
Sign in to saveAlso known as hereditary chorea, chorea, Bch, Hereditary Progressive Chorea Without Dementia, Benign familial chorea, BHC, hereditary benign chorea
Chorea, or (rarely) choreia, () is an abnormal involuntary movement disorder, characterized by quick movements of the hands or feet. It is one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias. The term chorea is derived , as the movements of the body are comparable to dancing.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Chorea
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Research
128 papers- Huntington's disease: a clinical review.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2010
- Management of dysphagia in Huntington's disease: a descriptive review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020
- Investigations of Huntington's Disease and Huntington's Disease-Like Syndromes in Indian Choreatic Patients.Journal of Huntington's disease · 2020
- Huntington's disease look-alikes.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2011
- Functional and cognitive capacity differ in dystonic motor subtypes when compared to choreatic and hypokinetic-rigid motor subtypes in Huntington's disease.Brain and behavior · 2020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- disease
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- ICPC 2 ID
- N08
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- exact match
- www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_1429
- health specialty
- neurology
- Commons category
- Chorea
- different from
- dancing mania
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C84633
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Presentation
- Causes
- Huntington's disease
- Other genetic causes
- Acquired causes
- Treatment
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
Chorea, or (rarely) choreia, () is an abnormal involuntary movement disorder, characterized by quick movements of the hands or feet. It is one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias. The term chorea is derived , as the movements of the body are comparable to dancing.
The term hemichorea refers to chorea of one side of the body, such as chorea of one arm but not both (analogous to hemiballismus).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “choreatic disease” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.