Conversive gait disorder: you cannot miss this diagnosis.

نویسندگان

  • Péricles Maranhão-Filho
  • Carlos Eduardo da Rocha E Silva
  • Maurice Borges Vincent
چکیده

Bizarre, purposeless movements and inconsistent findings are typical of conversive gaits. The objective of the present paper is to review some phenomenological aspects of twenty-five consecutive conversive gait disorder patients. Some variants are typical - knees give way-and-recover presentation, monoparetic, tremulous, and slow motion - allowing clinical diagnosis with high precision.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

دوره 72 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014