An unusual presentation of Huntington's disease.

Martin Lennart Schulze Westhoff Alma Osmanovic Catharina Meissner Johannes HeckNima MahmoudiCorinna HendrichGeorg BerdingJohanna SeifertStefan Bleich Tillmann H C KrugerTillmann KrügerAdrian Groh

Published in: Clinical case reports (2021)

We describe the case of a 59-year-old woman who exhibited psychotic symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and restlessness. While the clinical picture and 18F-FDG PET/CT suggested the presence of a tauopathy, especially frontotemporal dementia or progressive supranuclear palsy, genetic testing eventually revealed Huntington's disease.

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