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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2016 Apr 12;28:36–40. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2016.04.008

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical findings of hypertrophic olivary degeneration in our cohort

Unilateral HOD Bilateral HOD p Value

n % n %
Total 39 100 56 100 0.08
Age at onseta (y) 60 ± 17 (30–89)b 63 ± 13 (31–82)b 0.31
Men:Women 15:24 38:62 39:17 70:30 0.003

Symptomatic Clinical findingsc 9 23 22 39 0.10
 Ataxia 8 89 18 82 1.00
 Palatal tremor 4 44 11 50 1.00
 Dysarthria 5 56 11 50 1.00
 Tremor 2 22 11 50 0.24
 Pyramidal signs 6 67 9 41 0.25
 Nystagmus 5 56 8 36 0.43
 Ophthalmoplegia 7 78 6 27 0.02
 Dysphagia 1 11 5 23 0.64
 Ocular myoclonus 0 0 3 14 0.54
 Myoclonus 0 0 1 5 1.00

HOD: hypertrophic olivary degeneration, n: number

a

Initially detected by MRI,

b

mean ± SD (range),

c

presenting each ratio in the number of symptomatic cases