1043-3155 Pediatr Neurol Briefs pedneurbriefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs Pediatric Neurology Briefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs 2166-6482 1043-3155 2166-3155 Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers Chicago, IL, USA PNB-13-58 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-13-8-2 Movement Disorders Neurology Pediatrics Nervous System Diseases Child Development Brain Diseases Neurosurgery Child Infant Tourette Syndrome with Gyrus Rectus Cysts http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7931 Millichap J. Gordon MD 1 2 * Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Correspondence: Dr. J. Gordon Millichap, E-mail: jgmillichap@northwestern.edu 08 1999 01 05 2016 13 8 58 58 Copyright: © 1999 The Author(s) 1999 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Tourette syndrome associated with unilateral cystic changes in the gyrus rectus

Multicystic changes in the gyrus rectus of the left frontal lobe were demonstrated by brain magnetic resonance imaging in an 11-year-old boy with Tourette syndrome reported from Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Camden, NJ.

 Brain Magnetic Resonance Tourette Syndrome Corpus Callosum

Multicystic changes in the gyrus rectus of the left frontal lobe were demonstrated by brain magnetic resonance imaging in an 11-year-old boy with Tourette syndrome reported from Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Camden, NJ. Symptoms and signs of comorbid ADHD or obsessive compulsive disorder were absent. Tics responded to low dose clonidine therapy. [1]

COMMENT. Neurobiologic studies of Tourette syndrome (TS) have previously demonstrated that the prefrontal and cingulate gyrus, midbrain, corpus callosum, limbic system, and thalamus may be involved in the pathophysiology of TS. The above case-report suggests that the gyrus rectus may also be implicated in TS, independent of the basal ganglia. (see Progress in Pediatric Neurology III. PNB Publ, 1997;pp321-323).

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