Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/childneurology

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Child Neurology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by John, B.
Right arrow Articles by Haverkamp, F.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by John, B.
Right arrow Articles by Haverkamp, F.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Evidence for Altered Basal Ganglia and Cortical Functions in Transient Idiopathic Dystonia

Barbara John, MD

ChiLdren's Hospital Medical Center

Edzard Klemm, MD

Department of Nuclear Medicine

Fritz Haverkamp, MD

Children's Hospital Medical Center University of Bonn Bonn, Germany

Idiopathic dystonia with onset in the first year of life has been described as a transient movement disorder, in contrast to other forms of idiopathic dystonia. We report on a girl who showed, from her 5th month, episodes of dystonic postures of her neck and arm, which lasted for seconds and occurred several times a day. Neurologic findings and the psychomotor development were and remained normal. Neurometabolic screening tests and cerebral magnetic resonance imaging showed normal results. Functional cerebral imaging showed decreased perfusion of the basal ganglia and the left temperomesial cortex using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT with technetium 99m hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime [99mTc-HMPAO]) and decreased glucose metabolism in the basal ganglia and the cerebellum using positron emission tomography (PET with [18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose [18FDG]). Follow-up revealed that the episodes disappeared at the age of 16 months. The findings of PET and SPECT give evidence of an alteration in basal ganglia function but also in functions of other central nervous system regions, which may, however, be temporary. (J Child Neurol 2000;15:820-822).

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 15, No. 12, 820-822 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/088307380001501212
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 NeurologyHome page
M. Carbon, S. Su, V. Dhawan, D. Raymond, S. Bressman, and D. Eidelberg
Regional metabolism in primary torsion dystonia: Effects of penetrance and genotype
Neurology, April 27, 2004; 62(8): 1384 - 1390.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 J Child NeurolHome page
T. D. Sanger
Pathophysiology of Pediatric Movement Disorders
J Child Neurol, January 1, 2003; 18(1_suppl): S9 - S24.
[Abstract] [PDF]