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Neurologic complications of Hodgkin's disease (HD) include both metastatic and non-metastatic involvement of the nervous system. There are at least five paraneoplastic syndromes associated with HD but chorea has not been described. We report the first choreiform disorder as a paraneoplastic complication of HD and only the second case of paraneoplastic chorea in the literature.
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Batchelor, T., Platten, M., Palmer-Toy, D. et al. Chorea as a paraneoplastic complication of Hodgkin's disease. J Neurooncol 36, 185–190 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005860103173
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