Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for more information

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Clinical Pediatrics
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Arisaka, O.
Right arrow Articles by Kaneko, K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Arisaka, O.
Right arrow Articles by Kaneko, K.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Chorea as an Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

A Case Report of a 10-year-old Girl

Osamu Arisaka

Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kaoru Obinata

Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hidekuni Sasaki

Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Madoka Arisaka

Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kenichiro Kaneko

Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Neurological complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are relatively common, but isolated chorea as the initial manifestation of SLE is very rare. We report a 10-year-old girl presenting with chorea, who developed clinical and lab oratory findings of SLE 10 months after the onset of chorea. In this case, mild depression of complement levels in serum, which had already been found in the early stage of the chorea, was the only abnormal laboratory datum. The low serum complement levels that precede the appearance of other clinical and laboratory findings may be helpful for the diagnosis of isolated chorea involvement in SLE.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 23, No. 5, 298-300 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288402300514
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 CLIN PEDIATRHome page
C. H. Song, L. C. Oftadeh, C. Oh, J. Louie, and K. T. Yu
Successfu1 Treatment of Steroid-Resistant Chorea Associated with Lupus by Use of Valproic Acid and Clonidine-HCL Patch
Clinical Pediatrics, November 1, 1997; 36(11): 659 - 662.
[PDF]

Home page
 CLIN PEDIATRHome page
J. Springate, A. Vetrano, S. Cachero, V. Menon, and L. Feld
Chorea Following Acute Glomerulonephritis
Clinical Pediatrics, October 1, 1992; 31(10): 632 - 634.
[PDF]