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Isolated facio-lingual hypoalgesia and weakness after a hemorrhagic infarct localized at the contralateral operculum
- Source :
- Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 276:193-195
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2009.
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Abstract
- Isolated facio-lingual hypoesthesia and weakness is rare. We describe a case of isolated facio-lingual hypoesthesia and weakness after a hemorrhagic infarct localized at the contralateral operculum. A 66-year-old woman developed acute onset of facio-lingual hypoalgesia, hypoesthesia, and weakness, with no such symptoms being observed in other parts of the body. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed a subacute hemorrhagic infarct in the right frontal operculum, which spread slightly to the right temporo-parietal operculum. 123 IMP-SPECT showed hypoperfusion in the right fronto-temporo-parietal operculum, as detected by MRI, without apparent diaschisis within the brain. Neuroimaging findings for our patient suggested the involvement of the primary somatosensory-motor cortices (S1 and M1) and the secondary somatosensory cortex (S2), which receive trigemino-thalamo-cortical pathways.
- Subjects :
- Brain Infarction
Weakness
Functional Laterality
Hypesthesia
Tongue
Humans
Medicine
Operculum (brain)
Diaschisis
Stroke
Aged
Cerebral Cortex
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Brain Mapping
Muscle Weakness
Hypoalgesia
Secondary somatosensory cortex
business.industry
Hemorrhagic infarct
Anatomy
Hypoesthesia
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
medicine.anatomical_structure
Neurology
Face
Female
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
business
Intracranial Hemorrhages
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0022510X
- Volume :
- 276
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the Neurological Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9fffc30942eed2d96dcc754e49df67e9