Wilson disease

Wilson disease is a very rare inherited multisystemic disease presenting non-specific neurological, hepatic, psychiatric or osseo-muscular manifestations due to excessive copper deposition in the body.

Parkinsonism

Characteristic neurologic anomaly resulting form degeneration of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain, characterized clinically by shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement and difficulty with walking and gait.


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PMID (PMCID)
20437931
MALE Young Adult
Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusion Disease presenting as juvenile Parkinsonism.
Wiltshire KM, Dunham C, Reid S, Auer RN, Suchowersky O.
Can J Neurol Sci. 2010;37(2):213-8.
Diagnostic considerations for juvenile onset Parkinsonism (onset at < 21 years of age) include juvenile Huntington disease, Wilson disease, dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA), storage diseases, and mitochondrial cytopathies.