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NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 173-176Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/s100720070093
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AIDS; cerebral toxoplasmosis; parkinsonism
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The localization of opportunistic infections in the basal ganglia in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) can cause movement disorders, such as choreoathetosis, dystonia, hemiballism and, more rarely, parkinsonism. We describe the case of an AIDS patient who developed cerebral opportunistic granulomatous lesions and, subsequently, a parkinsonian akinetic-rigid syndrome. In agreement with cases reported in the literature, the parkinsonian syndrome developed only when the lesions bilaterally involved basal ganglia. The critical localization of the opportunistic lesions in the direct and indirect strio-pallidal pathways possibly associated with the HIV-related neurotoxicity might have contributed to determine this clinical picture.
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