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  1. Niyad U Pareeth1,
  2. Shaifali Bansal2,
  3. Rakesh Biswas2
  1. 1Department of Critical Care, People's College of Medical Science, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
  2. 2Medicine Department, People's College of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Rakesh Biswas, rakesh7biswas{at}gmail.com

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Description

A 10-year-old boy presented to us with a history of sudden onset of abnormal movements from the last 8 days. On examination, he had no problems except some abnormal movements of the lips, hands and feet (see video 1).

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Abnormal movements in a young boy.

Discussion

This patient had no family history of movement disorder. He never had seizures or intellectual impairment. His blood examination showed normal complete blood count and erythrocyte sedimentation rate along with a normal antistreptolysin O titre.

Movement disorder in this 10-year-old boy …

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