Blitshteyn Svetlana, Hentschel Kenneth, Czervionke Leo F, Eidelman Benjamin H
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
Clin Imaging. 2006 Jan-Feb;30(1):54-6. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2005.07.033.
We describe a patient who presented with a 1-h history of vertical diplopia and nystagmus and was found to have acute left ventrolateral thalamic infarction on the diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI MRI). This is the first case report demonstrating that vertical diplopia and nystagmus, which typically suggest a lesion in the brainstem or cerebellum, may also occur in acute thalamic infarction. DWI MRI can detect thalamic infarction as early as 1 h after its clinical manifestations.
