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01-12-2019 | Vomiting | Letter to the Editor
A case of recurrent vomiting: extending the spectrum of neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease
Authors:
Xiaoyun Liu, Xiaohui Liu, Yifeng Du, Youting Lin, Chunxia Li, Cuicui Liu, Lin Lu
Published in:
Neurological Sciences
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Issue 12/2019
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Excerpt
Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a rare progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by eosinophilic hyaline intranuclear inclusions presented in the central and peripheral nervous systems and in the visceral organs [
1]. Recently, it has been found that skin biopsy is an effective and less invasive ante-mortem diagnostic tool for NIID and shows similar pathological changes to post-mortem dissection [
2]. The clinical manifestations differ among patients and can be classified into three categories according to the age of onset: infantile, juvenile, and adult forms [
1]. Here we report a sporadic adult-onset NIID case mainly manifested as recurrent vomiting, hypertension and decreased level of consciousness. …