Wilson’s disease: differential diagnosis

Evidence-based neurology checklist on wilson’s disease: differential diagnosis: Clinical differential diagnosis Essential tremor (ET) Young-onset Parkinson’s disease (PD) Generalized dystonia Huntington disease (HD) Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) Idiopathic torsion dystonia…

Clinical differential diagnosis

  • Essential tremor (ET)
  • Young-onset Parkinson’s disease (PD)
  • Generalized dystonia
  • Huntington disease (HD)
  • Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA)
  • Idiopathic torsion dystonia
  • Chorea-acanthocytosis
  • Benign familial chorea

Other copper deficiency syndromes

Causes of low serum ceruloplasmin

References

  1. Prashanth LK, Taly AB, Sinha S, et al. Prognostic factors in patients presenting with severe neurological forms of Wilson’s disease. QJM 2005; 98:557-563. 
  2. Kumar N, Gross JB, Ahlskog JE. Copper deficiency myelopathy produces a clinical picture like subacute combined degeneration. Neurology 2004; 63:33-39.
  3. Nations SP, Boyer PJ, Love LA, et al. Denture cream: an unusual source of excess zinc, leading to hypocupremia and neurologic disease. Neurology 2008; 71:639-643.
  4. Rowin J, Lewis SL. Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy and pancytopenia secondary to overuse of zinc supplementation. JNNP 2005; 76:750-751.
  5. da Silva-Junior FP, Machado AAC, Lucato LT, Cancado ELR, Barbosa ER. Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy in a patient with Wilson disease. Neurology 2011; 76:1673-1674.
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