aetiology

Last reviewed 01/2018

Possible causes include:

  • cerebrovascular disease
  • drug-induced chorea
  • Huntington's chorea
  • Sydenham's chorea
  • systemic lupus erythamatosus
  • Wilson's disease
  • kernicterus
  • thyrotoxicosis
  • trauma - subdural haematoma
  • tumour
  • encephalitis lethargica