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We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia. CT-scanning revealed bilateral paramedian thalamic infarction in the territory of the thalamo-subthalamic paramedian arteries. Aphonia may occur
We describe two patients in whom CT brain scans imaged paramedian thalamo-subthalamic infarcts in the territory of the thalamo-mesencephalic arteries. Such infarcts give rise to a complex syndrome marked by disturbances of consciousness and of eye movement and neuropsychological disorders, including
BACKGROUND
Isolated aphonia induced by acute stroke is a rare phenomenon with only a few cases reported in the literature.
METHODS
We report an unusual case of a 44-year-old African-American man with a history of hypertension, smoking and cocaine use who developed acute aphonia secondary to
A clinical case of bilateral upper medial medullary infarction was reported. A 61-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of numbness of trunk and bilateral upper and lower limbs, aphonia and left-hemiparesis, which progressed to quadriplegia. Facial movements were intact. Her tongue was
A 74-year-old man presented sudden onset hoarseness and dysphagia. Two months before this event, he had developed arthralgia of the shoulders, elbows, hands and foot and pleuritis which had been alleviated by a treatment with prednisolone. On admission, the patient could not phonate nor swallow at