Huntington’s Disease Misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s Disease: A Case Report
Murat GÜLTEKİN,1 Meral MİRZA2
1Kayseri Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Nöroloji Kliniği, Kayseri, Türkiye;
2Erciyes Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Nöroloji Anabilim Dalı, Kayseri, Türkiye
Keywords: Genetics; Huntington’s disease; parkinsonism.
Abstract
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern, characterized by several clinical findings including motor, psychiatric and cognitive dysfunctions. In this article we present a case with HD who was misdiagnosed and mistreated.