Junaid Khan, Farrukh Sher, Anisa Kalsoom.
Hemiparkinsonism an experience of 4 years at CMH Rawalpindi.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;5(4):706-7.

Objective: To evaluate/ analyse the importance of potentially curable intracranial surgical lesions. Place and duration of study: Neurosurgical centre CMH RWP July 2002 to July 2006 Study design: Case control study. Patients and methods: Patients were selected by non probability convenient sampling from neurosurgical OPD. All patients with unilateral movement disorders were included. They were examined clinically and CT scan head was done in all patients. Results: Total number of 8 patients with hemiparkinsonism were observed during the study period. All were males and four had sphenoid wing meningiomas while other four had chronic subdural hematomas. All the patients were operated. Complication rate was nil except one patient with sphenoid wing meningioma developed subdural hygroma on the operated side. All were free of hemiparkinsonism post operatively. Conclusion: One must resort to neuroimaging in cases of hemiparkinsonism in order to identify and treat potentially curable intracranial pathology.

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