Stevens Christopher M, Malone Kevin, Degueure Arielle, Saad Aldine Amro, Arevalo Octavio
Interventional Radiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, USA.
Biomedical Engineering, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, USA.
Cureus. 2023 Jan 27;15(1):e34269. doi: 10.7759/cureus.34269. eCollection 2023 Jan.
Nonketotic hyperglycemic hemichorea (NH-HC) is a rare condition presenting in the clinical setting. Brain imaging plays an important role in diagnosing NH-HC, which typically shows basal ganglia changes contralateral to the side of the hemiballismus/hemichorea. Only a few articles in the literature have reported normal pertinent magnetic resonance/CT findings in patients presenting with NH-HC. To the authors' knowledge, no cases in the literature have reported basal ganglia changes solely observed on CT but not on MRI in patients presenting with NH-HC. Herein, we describe a unique case in which a CT of a patient presenting with NH-HC demonstrated basal ganglia abnormalities with negative MRI findings.
非酮症高血糖性偏侧舞蹈症(NH-HC)是一种临床少见病症。脑部影像学检查在NH-HC的诊断中起着重要作用,其典型表现为与偏侧投掷症/偏侧舞蹈症同侧的基底节区改变。文献中仅有少数文章报道了NH-HC患者的相关磁共振成像/计算机断层扫描(MRI/CT)结果正常。据作者所知,文献中尚无NH-HC患者仅在CT上而非MRI上观察到基底节区改变的病例报道。在此,我们描述了一例独特病例,该NH-HC患者的CT显示基底节区异常,而MRI结果为阴性。