Bilateral Traumatic Thalamic Hemorrhage: A Rare Clinical Presentation

Abstract

Bilateral traumatic thalamic hemorrhage is a very rare occurrence, especially after head trauma, and is limited to case reports. The authors present a 27-year-old man, admitted for head trauma causing bilateral thalamic bleeding. Posttraumatic intracerebral bleeding is caused by focal or diffuse axonal injury. Bilateral traumatic thalamic hemorrhage is a rare clinical and radiologic presentation.

Keywords

thalamic - hemorrhage - bilateral - head trauma

• References

• 1 Kwak R, Kadoya S, Suzuki T. Factors affecting the prognosis in thalamic hemorrhage. Stroke 1983; 14 (04) 493-500
• 2 Weisberg LA. Thalamic hemorrhage: clinical-CT correlations. Neurology 1986; 36 (10) 1382-1386
• 3 Hankey GJ, Stewart-Wynne EG. Amnesia following thalamic hemorrhage. Another stroke syndrome. Stroke 1988; 19 (06) 776-778
• 4 Bülen þ, Omoúlu S, þahün Y, Zbakir þ. Thalamic hemorrhage (presentation and prognosis of hemorrhages). Turk J Med Sci 2001; 31: 421-423
• 5 Juvela S. Risk factors for impaired outcome after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. Arch Neurol 1995; 52 (12) 1193-1200
• 6 Tatu L, Moulin T, El Mohamad R, Vuillier F, Rumbach L, Czorny A. Primary intracerebral hemorrhages in the Besançon stroke registry. Initial clinical and CT findings, early course and 30-day outcome in 350 patients. Eur Neurol 2000; 43 (04) 209-214
• 7 Bhargava P, Grewal SS, Gupta B, Jain V, Sobti H. Traumatic bilateral basal ganglia hematoma: a report of two cases. Asian J Neurosurg 2012; 7 (03) 147-150
• 8 Sarkar N, Roy BK, Das SK, Roy T, Dhibar T, Ghorai S. Bilateral intracerebral haemorrhages: an atypical presentation of Japanese encephalitis. Vol 53 JAPI; 2005
• 9 Calderon-Miranda WG, Alvis-Miranda HR, Alcala-Cerra G, M. Rubiano A, Moscote-Salazar LR. Bilateral traumatic basal ganglia hemorrhage associated with epidural hematoma: case report and literature review. Bull Emerg Trauma 2014; 2 (03) 130-132
• 10 Arboix A, Comes E, García-Eroles L. et al. Site of bleeding and early outcome in primary intracerebral hemorrhage. Acta Neurol Scand 2002; 105 (04) 282-288