%0 Journal Article
%T Diston¨ªa sensible a L-Dopa: enfermedad de Segawa
%A Rol¨®n
%A Marcela L
%A Yalj
%A Susana
%A Alabart
%A Nora
%A Menzano
%A Enrique
%J Archivos argentinos de pediatr£¿-a
%D 2007
%I Sociedad Argentina de Pediatria
%X we reported the case of an eight year-old girl, hospitalized due to the appearance of acute involuntary, continuous and torsional movements in the left leg, with alteration of gait; motions worsened throughout the day and improved during sleep. as symptoms matched those of dystonia, while discarding organic causes, we performed a therapeutic test with l-dopa, with a clear response. with this clinical picture, added to the existence of a blood relative with parkinson disease, and having discarded the wilson disease, we reached an l-dopa dystonia-sensitive (segawa disease) diagnosis, which is infrequent, chronic and drug dependent.
%K dystonia
%K l-dopa sensible dystonia
%K segawa disease.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0325-00752007000600013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en