title: Acute vertiginous presentation of primary thalamic hemorrhage.
abstract: A 43-year-old hypertensive patient presented with serve vertigo of abrupt onset. The initial neurological signs were subtle vertical gaze paralysis and unsteady gait. The computed tomographic scan revealed a left-sided thalamic hemorrhage. It is explained that the vertigo is due to stimulation of the vestibulo-ocular connections within the diencephalic-mesencephalic junction.
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitation Unit, Blacktown Hospital, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nagaratnam
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hansor
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007031:Hypothalamus; D007034:Hypothalamus, Posterior; D011859:Radiography; D014717:Vertigo / Q000209:etiology*