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8190279

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-6-20
pubmed:abstractText
We identified 10 patients with contralateral ataxia and hemisensory loss following unilateral thalamic lesions. Seven patients had ischemic infarcts, and three had hemorrhages. Hemiparesis, when present, was only a transient finding, whereas ataxia, dysmetria, dysdiadochokinesia, rebound, and hemisensory loss persisted. Two patients had cerebellar outflow tremor. Another developed a severe Déjerine-Roussy pain syndrome. Four patients had lesions of the dominant hemisphere, and two had visual field deficits. None had mutism, aphasia, or astasia. On radiographic evaluation, all patients had lesions in the mid to posterior thalamus, a localization consistent with a lesion of the dentatorubrothalamic and ascending sensory pathways into the thalamus. The thalamic ataxia syndrome has a distinct localizing value that is distinguishable from the ataxic hemiparesis syndrome. Strokes occurring in the ventral lateral and posterior nuclei of the thalamus produce the clinical picture of contralateral "cerebellar" dysfunction and sensory loss with only transient weakness.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0028-3878
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
44
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
810-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
The thalamic ataxia syndrome.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78284-7883.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article