Chorea

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 418 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-3185
• DOI: 10.1002/mds.870090730

✦ Synopsis

Objective: To Correlate the hemiballism with anatomical lesions which are right subthaIamus, left globus pallidus, and left putamen. Design: Case sexies. Setting: Tertiary care hospital. Patients and Other Participants: Three patients with a11 hyperkinetic disoder due to stmke in the right subthalamus in the left globus pallidus and in the left putamenWidm). Outcome measures: Neurologic examhtion, evaluation of the fisk factors in stmke, and magnetic resonance imaglng were performed. Results: Thm patients with hemiballism h r d diffmmt ruinloinicxl lesions. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a small ovoid hemorrhage involving the right subthalemic nucleus in a 73-yearold man with left hemiballism. a small infarction involving the left globus pallidus in a 57-year-old man with right hemiballism. and a left putamenal hemorrhage in a 72-yearold woman with monoballism of the right leg. In these patients hemiballism waa transient. Conclusion: Three cases of hemiballism were caused by diffenmt lesions of subthalamus, globus pallidus, and putamen.