The Hemimedullary Syndrome: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Overview

Journal J Neurol

Specialty Neurology

Date 1990 Jun 1

PMID 2196341

Citations 4

Authors

L Mossuto-Agatiello

C Kniahynicki

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Abstract

Hemi-infarction of the medulla causes the clinical constellation of symptoms and signs of both the lateral and medial medullary syndromes and nearly always results from occlusion of an intracranial vertebral artery. In the case reported here, with a clinical diagnosis of hemimedullary syndrome, the expected infarction was imaged by magnetic resonance. A review of the literature confirms that the hemimedullary syndrome, in which both medial and lateral syndromes occur simultaneously, is extremely rare, since it yielded only two previous cases with adequate anatomical confirmation.

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