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2812421

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-12-19
pubmed:abstractText
Eight patients with post-traumatic intention tremor were reported. Intention tremor developed in the young as a late complication of severe head injury (Glasgow Coma Scale was below 8 in all cases) and impaired their functional outcome. This state was treatable with medication or by stereotactic thalamotomy. Neurologically, all the patients lapsed into coma immediately after the injury and many patients manifested clinical signs of a midbrain lesion in the chronic stage. The characteristic CT (computed tomography) findings in the acute stage were a high density area in the midbrain, accompanied by diffuse cerebral swelling or intraventricular hemorrhage, and in the chronic stage, brain atrophy or ventricular enlargement were the most prominent CT findings. These characteristics, indicating diffuse brain damage in addition to midbrain injury, may suggest the presence of shearing injury. The midbrain damage is consistent with the classical hypothesis that the damage to the Dentate-Rubro-thalamic system accounts for the occurrence of intention tremor. Furthermore, the presence of diffuse brain damage suggests that a more widespread brain injury may participate in its development.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0344-5607
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
500-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Post-traumatic intention tremor--clinical features and CT findings.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurosurgery, Kawatetsu Chiba Hospital, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article