[Wilson's disease: study of 6 neurologic forms observed at the University Hospital in Conakry]

Med Trop (Mars). 2004;64(1):53-7.
[Article in French]

Abstract

This report describes 6 cases of Wilson's disease observed at the University Hospital Center in Conakry, Guinea. Presenting symptoms involved extrapyramidal syndrome in 4 cases, psychomotor epilepsy in 1, and confusional syndrome in 1 case. Diagnosis was based on neuropsychic manifestations, Kayser-Fleicher corneal ring, liver failure, and impaired copper metabolism. Brain CT-scan depicted normal features in 3 cases, symmetric hypodensity of the lenticular nucleus in one, discrete ventricular dilatation of in one a and cortico-subcoetical atrophy in one.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Basal Ganglia Diseases / etiology
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Child
  • Confusion / etiology
  • Epilepsy / etiology
  • Female
  • Guinea
  • Hepatolenticular Degeneration / complications
  • Hepatolenticular Degeneration / diagnosis
  • Hepatolenticular Degeneration / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed