Teaching NeuroImages: Comatose patient with bilateral thalamic infarct due to internal carotid artery occlusion.

Dababneh, Haitham; Shikhman, Aleksandr; Moussavi, Mohammad; Guerrero, Waldo R; Panezai, Spozhmy; Kirmani, Jawad F · Neurology · 2013

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

An 88-year-old woman with a medical history of diabetes, hypertension, and atrial fibrillation presented to the emergency room after being found unresponsive with a NIH Stroke Scale score of 23 and Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3. She was unresponsive to painful stimuli. Noncontrast CT demonstrated bilateral thalamic infarcts (figure 1A).

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