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Physical examination of patients with Intracerebral hemorrhage is usually varies based on the location of the bleeding.
Physical examination of patients with Intracerebral hemorrhage is usually varies based on the location of the bleeding.
===Thalamic haemorrhage===
 
downward gaze (paralysis of upward gaze)
Putamenal hemorrhage:
small pupils (lack of light pupillary response)
 
depressed consciousness
Commonly occurs along white matter fiber tracts
apathy
 
hypersomnolence
Cerebellar hemorrhages:
disorientation
 
visual hallucinations
Usually occurs in the dentate nucleus, extend into the hemisphere and fourth ventricle, and possibly into the pontine tegmentum.
aphasia
impairment of verbal memory
visuospatial dysfunction
*Thalamic strokes can also present with behavioural patterns depending on the four main arterial thalamic territories:
**anterior: perservations, apathy and amnesia
***paramedian infarction: disinhibition, personality change and amnesia (severe retrograde and anterograde amnesia)
***extensive lesions: "thalamic dementia"
**inferolateral: executive dysfunction and occasionally severe long term disability
**posterior: no specific behavioural pattern however can include cognitive dysfunction, neglect, aphasia


35 percent of cases, subcortex in 30 percent, cerebellum in 16 percent, thalamus in 15 percent, and pons in 5 to 12 percent
35 percent of cases, subcortex in 30 percent, cerebellum in 16 percent, thalamus in 15 percent, and pons in 5 to 12 percent
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" | '''Putamenal hemorrhage''' (35%)
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*[[Hemiplegia]]
*[[Hemiplegia]]
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*[[Coma]]
*[[Coma]]
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| rowspan="2" style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" | '''Thalamic hemorrhage''' (15%)
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" |General signs:
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" |General signs:
*[[Downward gaze]] (paralysis of upward gaze)
*Downward gaze (paralysis of upward gaze)
*Small pupils (lack of light pupillary response)
*Small pupils (lack of light pupillary response)
*Depressed consciousness
*Depressed consciousness
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*Posterior: No specific behavioural pattern however can include [[cognitive dysfunction]], [[neglect]], [[aphasia]]
*Posterior: No specific behavioural pattern however can include [[cognitive dysfunction]], [[neglect]], [[aphasia]]
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" | '''Pontine hemorrhage''' (5-12%)
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" | '''Pontine hemorrhage'''  
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*Decreased level of consciousness (most common)
*Decreased level of consciousness (most common)
*Long tract signs including tetra paresis
*Long tract signs including [[tetraparesis]]
*Cranial nerve palsies
*[[Cranial nerve palsies]]
*[[Seizures]]
*[[Seizures]]
*Cheyne-Stokes respiration
*[[Cheyne-Stokes respiration]]
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" | '''Cerebellar hemorrhage''' (16%)
| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" | '''Cerebellar hemorrhage'''  
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*Small bleeds
*Small bleeds
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #DCDCDC;" |''' Lobar hemorrhage
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| style="padding: 5px 5px; background: #F5F5F5;" |The signs vary depending on the location of the hemorrhage:
*Acute neurological deterioration
*Acute neurological deterioration
*Decreased GCS
*Decreased GCS
*[[Seizure]]
*Contralateral [[homonymous hemianopsia]] (occipital hemorrhage)
*Contralateral plegia/[[paresis]] of the leg with relative sparing of the arm (frontal hemorrhage)
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Physical examination

Physical examination

Physical examination of patients with Intracerebral hemorrhage is usually varies based on the location of the bleeding.

Putamenal hemorrhage:

Commonly occurs along white matter fiber tracts

Cerebellar hemorrhages:

Usually occurs in the dentate nucleus, extend into the hemisphere and fourth ventricle, and possibly into the pontine tegmentum.

35 percent of cases, subcortex in 30 percent, cerebellum in 16 percent, thalamus in 15 percent, and pons in 5 to 12 percent

Locations Physical examination
Putamenal hemorrhage
Thalamic hemorrhage General signs:
Behavioural patterns based on the four main arterial thalamic territories:
Pontine hemorrhage
Cerebellar hemorrhage
Lobar hemorrhage The signs vary depending on the location of the hemorrhage:
  • Acute neurological deterioration
  • Decreased GCS
  • Seizure
  • Contralateral homonymous hemianopsia (occipital hemorrhage)
  • Contralateral plegia/paresis of the leg with relative sparing of the arm (frontal hemorrhage)

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