[Parkinson syndrome, frontal tumor and L-dopa]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1984;140(2):138-9.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A case of frontal astrocytoma revealed by an extrapyramidal syndrome and improved by L-DOPA treatment is reported. Thus, at least partly, parkinsonian signs were provoked by dysfunction of the central dopaminergic systems.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Astrocytoma / complications*
  • Brain Neoplasms / complications*
  • Frontal Lobe*
  • Humans
  • Levodopa / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Parkinson Disease, Secondary / drug therapy
  • Parkinson Disease, Secondary / etiology*

Substances

  • Levodopa