Catalog

Hemiballism due to certain specified causes

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Link to WHO Definition

Hemiballism due to certain specified causes – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/73043153

Hyperkinetic involuntary movement disorder characterized by unilateral sudden, violent, flinging, or ballistic high amplitude movements due to a lesion of the contralateral subthalamic nucelus or immediately surrounding structure. Common etiologies of hemiballism include intracranial hemorrhage, stroke, neoplasm, head trauma, metabolic dysfunction, neuroinfectious disease, neuro-inflammatory disease, vasculitis, paraneoplastic syndromes, and toxic exposures.