Disappearance of parkinsonian signs after spontaneous vascular 'thalamotomy'.
Disappearance of parkinsonian symptoms was observed in a 57-year-old patient with Parkinson's disease after a contralateral thalamopeduncular infarct. From analysis of stereotaxic data in parkinsonian patients, this may be explained by lesion of the ventro-oral internal nucleus or of Forel's field, both of which are involved in thalamopeduncular infarcts.
D005260:Female; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013788:Thalamus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed