Sunday, 3 March 2019

Tourettism

Tourettism refers to a presentation of a patient with signs and symptoms which resemble Tourette syndrome, in the absence of the syndrome itself.

Similar signs

  • Chorea
  • Myoclonus
  • Dystonia
    • Torsion dystonia
    • Idiopathic dystonia

 

Differential diagnosis

  • Down syndrome
  • Hepatolenticular degeneration
  • Huntington's disease 
  • Intellectual disability
  • Schizophrenia
  • Stereotypic movement disorder

Infectious or post-infectious 

  • Encephalitis
  • Sydenham's chorea

Drug-induced

  • Levodopa
  • Carbamazepine
  • Lamotrigine
  • Phenytoin
  • Phenobarbital
  • Haloperidol

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