Short Communication Hypertensive Putaminal Hemorrhage Presenting With Hemichorea

ACUTE DISORDERS OF MOVEMENT have been seen after nonhemorrhagic infarction of various portions of the basal ganglia. Hemichorea has occurred secondary to infarcts in the caudate nucleus and putamen. 1-4 Although the putamen is the commonest site of primary intracerebral hemorrhage, hemichorea was not included in the broad spectrum of clinical presentations seen in one review of 24 cases of putaminal hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan. Our report describes a patient in whom hemichorea was the major sign of an acute hypertensive putaminal hemorrhage (HPH).