Hemimedullary infarct with ipsilateral hemiplegia: A vertebral artery dissection syndrome?

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 135-137

  Porto, Fábio H G ^a   da Silva, Soraya P ^a   Orsini, Marco ^a   de Freitas, Marcos R G ^a   de Freitas, Gabriel R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO ANTÔNIO PEDRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dissection; Hemimedullary syndrome; Ischemia; Medulla oblongata; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BELL PALSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIMEDULLARY SYNDROME; HEMIPLEGIA; HOARSENESS; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STROKE; SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; SYNDROME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 58749091256     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2008.11.025     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Currier R.D. Syndromes of the medulla oblongata. In: Vinken P.J., and Bruyn G.W. (Eds). Handbook of clinical neurology vol. 2 (1969), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 217-237
2. Krasnianski M., Neudecker S., Schluter A., and Zierz S. Babinski-Nageotte's syndrome and Hemimedullary (Reinhold's) syndrome are clinically and morphologically distinct conditions. J Neurol 250 (2003) 938-942
3. Krasnianski M., Muller T., Stock K., and Zierz S. Between Wallenberg syndrome and hemimedullary lesion: Cestan-Chenais and Babinski-Nageotte syndromes in medullary infarctions. J Neurol 253 (2006) 1442-1446
4. Mossuto-Agatiello L., and Kniahynicki C. The hemimedullary syndrome: case report and review of the literature. J Neurol 237 (1990) 208-212
5. de Freitas G.R., Moll J., and Araujo A.Q. The Babinski-Nageotte syndrome. Neurology 56 (2001) 1604
6. Tada M., Tada M., Ishiguro H., and Hirota K. Babinski-Nageotte syndrome with ipsilateral hemiparesis. Arch Neurol 62 (2005) 676-677
7. Shin H.Y., Kim B.J., Kim Y.H., Kim S.T., Chung C.S., Lee K.H., and Kim G.M. Hemimedullary syndrome with ipsilateral sensorimotor deficits. Eur Neurol 55 (2006) 46-48
8. Nakane H., Okada Y., Sadoshima S., and Fujishima M. Babinski-Nageotte syndrome on magnetic resonance imaging. Stroke 22 (1991) 272-275
9. Chang Y.Y., Wu H.S., Chen W.H., Liu J.S., and Chen S.S. Babinski-Nageotte syndrome: a case report. Gaoxiong Yi Xue Ke Xue Za Zhi 9 (1993) 595-598
10. Bassetti C., Bogousslavsky J., Mattle H., and Bernasconi A. Medial medullary stroke: report of seven patients and review of the literature. Neurology 48 (1997) 882-890
11. Irie F., Toyoda K., Hagiwara N., Fujimoto S., and Okada Y. Babinski-Nageotte syndrome due to vertebral artery dissection. Intern Med 42 (2002) 871-874
12. Opalski A. Un nouveau syndrome sous-bulbaire: syndrome partiel de l'artère vertébro-spinale postérieure. Paris Med 1 (1946) 214-220
13. Schutta H.S. The trouble with eponyms. Arch Neurol 62 (2005) 1784-1785
14. Kim J.S., Kim H.G., and Chung C.S. Medial medullary syndrome: report of 18 new patients and review of the literature. Stroke 26 (1995) 1548-1552
15. Arnold M., Bousser M.G., Fahrni G., Fischer U., Georgiadis D., Gandjour J., et al. Vertebral artery dissection: presenting findings and predictors of outcome. Stroke 37 (2006) 2499-2503
16. Kim J.S. Pure lateral medullary infarction: clinical-radiological correlation of 130 acute, consecutive patients. Brain 126 (2003) 1864-1872
17. Stopford J.B.S. The arteries of the pons and medulla oblongata: part I. J Anat Physiol 50 (1916) 130-164