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Neuroimaging of bilateral caudate infarction manifesting as Parkinsonian gait disorder
Pasquale F Finelli1, Fiona Gupta, Neer Zeevi
1Department of Neurology, Hartford Hospital, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford, CT 06102-5037, USA. Pfinell@harthosp.org
Connecticut Medicine
|April 5, 2007
Abstract:
Neurobehavioral changes characterize the clinical presentation of bilateral caudate infarction. We describe an 82-year-old man who presented with a Parkinsonian gait disorder in the absence of behavioral abnormality whose diffusion-weighted imaging demonstrated infarction of the caudate nuclei.
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