An association of central post-stroke pain and thalamic hand
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An association of central post-stroke pain and thalamic hand.
Thalamic hand is one of the clinical expressions of the painful thalamic syndrome. This paper relates on a case of a patient with a syndrome of central post-stroke and supra-thalamic pain who also presents a thalamic hand. The authors emphasize the notion that in the syndrome of central post-stroke pain a direct or indirect (infra or supra)-thalamic lesion seems to be an essential element for t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x1992000100021