Chronic liver failure and bilateral pallidal lesions.
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Keywords

globus pallidus
hepatocerebral degeneration
liver cirrhosis
pallidal Parkinsonism

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Del Brutto, O. H., & Costa, A. F. (2021). Chronic liver failure and bilateral pallidal lesions. Revista Ecuatoriana De Neurología, 28(1). Retrieved from https://revecuatneurol.temp.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/revecuatneurol/article/view/1814

Abstract

A 66-year-old woman with history of cirrhosis of unknown etiology was evaluated one month after transient loss of consciousness followed by dystonic posturing, abnormal speech and shuffling gate.

She had been complaining of chronic fatigue, anorexia and weight loos for the past six months, and referred two episodes of non-traumatic nose bleeding in the past two weeks.