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We describe eight patients with bilateral paramedian thalamic infarction on CT scanning. Clinically, these patients had infarctions of either the paramedian thalamus alone or the paramedian thalamus with a variable extension to contiguous structures. A single occlusion may result in bilateral paramedian thalamic lesions because of the common occurrence of a single trunk of origin for the paramedian thalamic arteries.
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Gerber, O., Gudesblatt, M. Bilateral paramedian thalamic infarctions: a CT study. Neuroradiology 28, 128–131 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327884
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327884