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A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: An ‘‘Alien Leg’’ in Corticobasal Syndrome Cover

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: An ‘‘Alien Leg’’ in Corticobasal Syndrome

Open Access
|Apr 2017

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Figure 1

Brain imaging of patient 1. (A) Magnetic resonance imaging brain scan: small vessel ischemic disease. (B) Fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography: diffuse moderate left basal ganglia hypometabolism, moderate regional left posterior parietal hypometabolism and mild-moderate left frontal hypo metabolism.

Video 1

Patient 1: Abduction and adduction of the toes on the right side, involuntary dorsiflexion and flexion of the right ankle and myoclonus.

Video 2

Patient 1: Involuntary movements of the right leg “alien leg”. In order for the patient to stand up the doctor had to stand on his right foot to hold it in place.

Video 3

Patient 1: Right alien leg, magnetism, grasp and stimulus sensitive myoclonus in both hands.

Video 4

Patient 1: Left alien leg, difficulty putting a shoe on.

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Figure 2

(A) Patient 2 nuclear magnetic dopaminergic brain scan: subtle left tracer uptake reduction in the putamen. (B) Patient 2 fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography: reduced metabolic activity in the bilateral insula, perisylvian regions and midline pre-frontal cortex.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.358 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 17, 2017
Accepted on: Mar 31, 2017
Published on: Apr 26, 2017
Published by: Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2017 Diana Angelika Olszewska, Allan McCarthy, Brian Murray, Brian Magennis, Sean Connolly, Tim Lynch, published by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
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