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Age and Ageing Advance Access published online on May 29, 2008
Age and Ageing, doi:10.1093/ageing/afn103
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Copyright © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society.

Case Report

A case of corticobasal degeneration presenting with alien limb syndrome

Divya Tiwari1 and Khaled Amar2

1 Christiana Care Center for Outcomes Research (CCOR), Newark, DE 19718, USA
2 Department of General and Geriatric Medicine, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, Dorset BH7 7DW, UK

Address correspondence to: Divya Tiwari. Tel: +1 302 733 1162. Email: dtiwari{at}doctors.org.uk

Abstract

Alien limb syndrome (ALS) is a very rare condition where the affected persons are not able to recognise the affected limb as their own, and regard it as being foreign or alien to them. We present a patient with ALS secondary to corticobasal degeneration, which is a rare neurodegenerative parkinsonian disorder. We discuss the clinical features, neuropathology and management of corticobasal degeneration.

Keywords: alien limb, CBD, corticobasal degeneration, taupathy

Received 11 May 2007; accepted in revised form 11 December 2007.


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