Endocrine Abstracts

Movement disorders as the initial symptoms of diabetes mellitus are rare. Here, we describe one of these rare manifestations of primary diabetes: a case of newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus in an old age female patient with transient monoballismus during an episode of ketotic hyperglycemia. Ballism can be rapidly controlled by normalization of glycemia. Our patient had monoballism confined to her upper extremity. To our knowledge, this is the first report describing monoballis...