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Brain glucose metabolism in thalamic syndrome
E C Laterre1, A G De Volder, A M Goffinet
1University of Louvain Positron Tomography Laboratory, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
Regional brain glucose metabolism was studied in a case of postischaemic thalamic syndrome. Despite a normal density of the thalamus on MRI and CT images, a 17% relative hypometabolism was found in the posterior thalamus on the affected side. This observation of functional anomalies in the posterior thalamic complex in case of thalamic syndrome is compatible with a deregulated processing of pain-related information at this level.