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Myoclonus and adult coeliac disease

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A 56-year-old woman with coeliac disease developed myoclonus of cortical origin and palatal myoclonus with lesions of subcortical white matter on magnetic resonance imaging. Myoclonus can thus be a prominent feature of coeliac disease encephalopathy. A slight vitamin E deficiency was found but does not satisfactorily explain this myoclonic encephalopathy, which remains of unknown origin.

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  1. Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Pellegrin, Place Amélie Raba-Léon, F-33076, Bordeaux Cédex, France

    F. Tison & P. Henry

  2. Service d'explorations fonctionnelles du système nerveux, Hôpital Pellegrin, Place Amélie Raba-Léon, F-33076, Bordeaux Cédex, France

    P. Arne

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Tison, F., Arne, P. & Henry, P. Myoclonus and adult coeliac disease. J Neurol 236, 307–308 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00314464

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