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Bilateral thalamic infarcts are a rare, but sometimes they can present as memory loss as the chief complaint. So they should always be kept as a differential in a patient with dementia. We report a short case series of 3 patients who presented to our center with the history of memory impairment and turned out to be isolated thalamic infarcts.

Thalamus, Stroke, Thalamic-Dementia, Memory Loss

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