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1: Neurology. 1981 Apr;31(4):484-6.Links

Paraballism caused by bilateral hemorrhagic infarction in basal ganglia.

Lodder J, Baard WC.

Bilateral ballism developed gradually in a 75-year-old woman after head trauma. Computerized tomography revealed bilateral hemorrhagic infarction in the head of the caudate nucleus and the putamen. Haloperidol abolished the symptoms completely within 2 days. After 18 days, haloperidol was gradually withdrawal over 16 days. The patient remained without ballistic movements thereafter.

PMID: 7194444 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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