Journal of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders

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.