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In a 28-year-old woman, who presented multiple muscular and vocal tics, typical of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, CT scans revealed a large porencephalic cyst in the right hemisphere involving the right basal ganglia, as well as contrast enhancement in the region of the left basal ganglia.
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Kjaer, M., Boris, P. & Gadegaard Hansen, L. Abnormal CT scan in a patient with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Neuroradiology 28, 362–363 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00333447
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