title: [Isolated cheiro-facial formication caused by a thalamic hematoma].
abstract: A 25 year-old Saudi female patient presented with numbness of the left half of the face and the tongue and the left hand. Neurological and neuropsychological examinations were normal. Brain CT showed a small hematoma (5 to 7 mm diameter) of the right thalamus probably destroying or compressing the ventropostero-median and ventropostero-lateral thalamic nuclei. Thalamic hematoma has been reported only twice as a cause of pure sensory stroke. The absence of clinical signs together with the presence of symptoms, and the particular topography of the symptoms are discussed.
authors.affiliation: King Fahd Specialist Hospital, Buraydah, Arabie Saoudite.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Awada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005145:Face / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006406:Hematoma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D010292:Paresthesia / Q000209:etiology*; D013786:Thalamic Diseases / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Fourmillements cheiro-faciaux isolés par hématome thalamique.