title: An association of central post-stroke pain and thalamic hand.
abstract: Thalamic hand is one of the clinical expressions of the painful thalamic syndrome. This paper relates on a case of a patient with a syndrome of central post-stroke and supra-thalamic pain who also presents a thalamic hand. The authors emphasize the notion that in the syndrome of central post-stroke pain a direct or indirect (infra or supra)-thalamic lesion seems to be an essential element for the genesis of central pain.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fisiologia e Farmacologia, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, UFCe, Fortaleza CE, Brasil.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: de Castro-Costa
authors.forename: O C
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: do Vale
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Siqueira Neto
mesh_terms: D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004421:Dystonia / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013788:Thalamus / Q000098:blood supply*