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Periodic limb movement during sleep developed after pontine lesion
Author(s) -
Kim JoongSeok,
Lee SangBong,
Park SoungKyeong,
Han SiRyung,
Kim YeongIn,
Lee KwangSoo
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
movement disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.352
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1531-8257
pISSN - 0885-3185
DOI - 10.1002/mds.10517
Subject(s) - sleep (system call) , stroke (engine) , lesion , physical medicine and rehabilitation , movement disorders , medicine , psychology , surgery , physics , disease , computer science , thermodynamics , operating system
We describe 2 patients who suffered a pontine infarction and subsequently developed periodic leg movement (PLM). The temporal relationship between a stroke and subsequent PLM, as well as the absence of sleep‐related disorders in patients' histories, favors the argument of a cause‐and‐effect relationship, with the observed association providing evidence for an anatomic substrate for PLM. © 2003 Movement Disorder Society