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Periodic limb movement during sleep developed after pontine lesion
Joong-Seok Kim1, Sang-Bong Lee, Soung-Kyeong Park
1Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Movement Disorders : Official Journal of the Movement Disorder Society
|November 26, 2003
Abstract:
We describe 2 patients who suffered a pontine infarction and subsequently developed periodic leg movement (PLM). The temporal relationship between a stroke and subsequent PLM, as well as the absence of sleep-related disorders in patients' histories, favors the argument of a cause-and-effect relationship, with the observed association providing evidence for an anatomic substrate for PLM.