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SUBMITTER: Williams-Gray CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2077773 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Williams-Gray Caroline H CH Aliyu Sani H SH Lever Andrew M L AM Dean Andrew F AF Lennox Graham G GG
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 20070401 4
A case of pathologically confirmed progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy presenting with unilateral parkinsonism and cognitive decline that significantly improved over a 12-month period without any treatment is described. The patient had a background of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, but had been in complete remission for 4 years at the time of diagnosis. This case is highly unusual not only in terms of the mode of clinical presentation in an apparently immunocompetent patient but also in t ...[more]