Pure sensory stroke can occur with lesions in various areas of the somatosensory system. Hemisensory deficits of all modalities usually are associated with a relatively large lacune or hemorrhage in the lateral thalamus, whereas tract-specific or restricted sensory changes suggest very small strokes in the sensory pathway from the pons to the parietal cortex.
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J S Kim (1992) studied this question.