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Severe Bilateral Kinetic Tremor Due to Unilateral Midbrain Lesions

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Volume 7 (2017): Issue 0
By: Majid Esmaeilzadeh,  Nesrin Uksul and  Joachim K. Krauss  
Open Access
|Dec 2017

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Figure 1

Axial T2-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans of Patient 1 (A,B). A hypointense lesion with a hyperintense rim in the dorsal aspect of the right mesencephalon extending from the superior cerebellar peduncle to the mesencephalic–diencephalic transition zone.

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Figure 2

Axial T1-weighted Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Scans of Patient 2 (A,B). A tumor located in the right pontine and mesencephalic tectum and tegmentum.

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Figure 3

Schematic View of the Site of the Lesion. In both patients located at a strategic point close to the decussatio pedunculorum affecting the ipsilateral predecussational dentatothalamic pathway and the ipsilateral postdecussational dentatothalamic pathway originating from the contralateral dentate nucleus. (Modified from Figure 163, Nieuwenhuys et al., Springer, 1991 (13)).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.366 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
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Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 30, 2017
Accepted on: Nov 10, 2017
Published on: Dec 6, 2017
Published by: Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Dentatothalamic tract,
midbrain,
superior cerebellar peduncle,
tremor,
brainstem

© 2017 Majid Esmaeilzadeh, Nesrin Uksul, Joachim K. Krauss, published by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
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