Posttraumatic hemiballism with focal discrete hemorrhage in contralateral subthalamic nucleus.
Although head trauma has occasionally been described as a cause of hemiballism, relevant traumatic lesion involving subthalamic nucleus (STN) has rarely been reported. We report a 49-year-old man with focal and discrete traumatic STN hemorrhage, which presented as transient contralateral hemiballism. Although such discrete STN lesion is not infrequently found in patients with post-stroke hemiballism, it has not been reported in posttraumatic hemiballism.
Kim
Han-Joon
HJ
Department of Neurology, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea. movement@ilsanpaik.ac.kr
Lee
Dong-Ha
DH
Park
Jong-Ho
JH
D020820:Dyskinesias / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020531:Subthalamic Nucleus / Q000473:pathology*