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^1,2,4,5Ministry of Health Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Research and Training Hospital, 2nd Neurosurgery Clinic, Ankara, Turkey
³Ministry of Health Ankara Dışkapı Children's Research and Training Hospital, Pediatric Neurology Clinic, Ankara, Turkey We present a case of posttraumatic infarction in the territory supplied by the lateral lenticulostriate artery after a minor head injury in a child. A 2.5-year-old child was admited to our emergency room after a head-on fall from a height of 50cm. He developed a right hemiparesis and he could not speak properly for about half an hour. An initial computerized tomography of the head taken two hours after the accident was normal. A follow-up CT obtained two days later revealed a hypodense lesion at the left basal ganglia and a diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging disclosed an area of infarction. The patient was conservatively medicated and full recovery was made in three weeks. Hospital admission, careful observation and early diffusion-weighted MR examination should be considered for patients with persistent neurological deficits. Keywords : Brain hemorrhage, Traumatic, Basal ganglia, Infarction, Hemiparesis, Children