Language Impairment in Adolescents with Sydenham Chorea

J. Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-11-6

Language Impairment in Adolescents with Sydenham Chorea

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 29 (2015): Issue 11

By: J. Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Dec 2015

Abstract

Investigators from hospitals in Brazil tested verbal fluency in 20 adolescent patients, ages ranged from 11 to 16 years (mean 13.8 years), with Sydenham chorea compared with 20 patients with rheumatic fever without chorea and 20 healthy controls, matched for age and gender.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-11-6 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 87 - 87

Submitted on: Nov 15, 2015

Accepted on: Nov 25, 2015

Published on: Dec 17, 2015

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Sydenham Chorea,

Rheumatic Fever,

Verbal Fluency

© 2015 J. Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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