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SUBMITTER: Carbayo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7384777 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 20200727 10
Hemichorea and other hyperkinetic movement disorders are a rare presentation of stroke, usually secondary to deep infarctions affecting the basal ganglia and the thalamus. Chorea can also result from lesions limited to the cortex, as shown in recent reports. Still, the pathophysiology of this form of cortical stroke-related chorea remains unknown. We report 4 cases of acute ischemic cortical strokes presenting as hemichorea, with the infarction being limited to the parietal and insular cortex in ...[more]