Parkinson's Disease

Alternate Name: Paralysis Agitans

Test:

None specific

Sign:

Cogwheel festination, hypertonicity,lead-pipe rigidity, .parkinsonism, parkinaonian fa­cies, resting tremor

Dd:

Carbon monoxide poisoning, heavy metal poison-ing, cerebral tumours, degenerative disease, al­coholism, drugs, encephalitis, arteriosclerosis

Phys:

Insidiously progressive disease of unknown aeti­ology that produces a bland facies, tremor, rigidity and akinesia