Hemichoreoballism with Anterior Cerebral Artery Territory Infarction

J Korean Neurol Assoc > Volume 23(2); 2005 > Article

Journal of the Korean Neurological Association 2005;23(2): 271-273.

전대뇌동맥 뇌경색에 의한 반측 무도발리즘 1예

배영조, 이종태 김은희 이호원 정두교 서정규 박성파

경북대학교 의과대학 신경과학교실

Hemichoreoballism with Anterior Cerebral Artery Territory Infarction

Young-Jo Bae

Department of Neurology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

Abstract

Various movement disorders associated with cerebral infarction have been introduced. However patients with anterior cerebral artery territory infarction presenting with hemichoreoballism have never been reported. We present a 64-year-old man with hemichoreoballism and frontal alien hand syndrome on his right hand. Diffusion weighted brain MRI revealed hyperintensities in anterior two third of corpus callosum and superior frontal gyrus. Hemichoreoballism was improved after one day treated by clonazepam. We report the case with hemichoreoballism after anterior cerebral artery territory infarction. KeyWords:Hemichoreoballism, Anterior cerebral artery territory infarction, Alien hand syndrome