Author(s)

Yeting Zhou, Guangsheng Wang, Xiaodong Chen, Tonghui Yang, Yuanwei Wang, Chunhong Chang, Ying Wang, Hanbei Gu, Junjie Bao, Gaihong Xu, Daoming Tong

Departments of Neurology, Shuyang People’ Hospital, Shuyang, China.
Medical Evaluation Unit, Shuyang People’ Hospital, Shuyang, China.

Hemichorea with corresponding putamenal T1 hyper-intensity and T2 hypointensity on MR imaging has occasionally been reported in diabetes mellitus with nonketotic hyperglycemia. However, the signal intensity in pu-tamenal and cerebellum lesion on MR imaging, which is believed to be pathogenetically related to hemichorea, is rarely documented in diabetes mellitus with nonketotic hyperglycemia. We describe a 57-year-old man with nonketotic hyperglycemic hemichorea on his right arm and legs, whose signal intensity in putamenal and cerebellum lesion was demonstrated by MR imaging.

Nonketotic Hyperglycemia; Hemichorea; Diabetes Mellitus; MRI

Zhou, Y. , Wang, G. , Chen, X. , Yang, T. , Wang, Y. , Chang, C. , Wang, Y. , Gu, H. , Bao, J. , Xu, G. and Tong, D. (2012) Hemichorea in nonketotic hyperglycemia: Putamenal and cerebellum lesion on MR imaging. World Journal of Neuroscience, 2, 138-140. doi: 10.4236/wjns.2012.22020.