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"Déjerine-Roussy syndrome, or thalamic pain syndrome, is a type of central post-stroke pain syndrome caused by a stroke to the thalamus."

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"Although the thalamus is the location of the lesion implicated in this syndrome, central post-stroke pain can also occur due to lesions at any level of the spinothalamic pathway, such as in patients with the lateral medullary syndrome or with cortical lesions ^2,7. Lesions in these other locations have occasionally been referred to as pseudo-thalamic pain syndrome ⁷."

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"Although the thalamus is the location of the lesion implicated in this syndrome, central post-stroke pain can also occur due to lesions at any level of the spinothalamic pathway, such as in patients with the lateral medullary syndrome or with cortical lesions ^2,7. Lesions in these other locations have occasionally been referred to as pseudo-thalamic pain syndrome ⁷."

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Biographical Date Spacing

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"The syndrome was first described by Joseph Jules Déjerine (1849-1917), a French neurologist, and Gustave Roussy (1874-1948), a French neuropathologist, in their 1906 seminal paper ⁹."

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"Although the thalamus is the location of the lesion implicated in this syndrome, central post-stroke pain can also occur due to lesions at any level of the spinothalamic pathway, such as in patients with the lateral medullary syndrome or with cortical lesions ^2,7. Lesions in these other locations have occasionally been referred to as pseudo-thalamic pain syndrome ⁷."

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