Monochorea caused by a striatal lesion.
A 76-year-old man developed choreic movement restricted to the arm. Computed tomography suggested an old infarction mainly involving the head of the right caudate nucleus. Monochorea may indicate a striatal lesion and suggests the somatotopic localization.
Ikeda
M
M
Department of Medicine, Asahi General Hospital, Chiba, Japan.
Tsukagoshi
H
H
D000368:Aged; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002819:Chorea / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed