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Pontine watershed infarction

Pontine watershed infarction Acta Neurol Belg (2014) 114:141–142 DOI 10.1007/s13760-013-0274-7 N E URO- IMA G ES • • Dimitri Renard Jonathan Broner Anne Le Floch Received: 18 November 2013 / Accepted: 23 December 2013 / Published online: 17 January 2014 Belgian Neurological Society 2014 A 45-year-old man with a history of overweight, smoking, the posterior inferior cerebellar artery or directly from the and untreated hypercholesterolemia presented with acute basilar artery—have been described). The associated small onset vertigo, nausea, right-sided tinnitus, and drowsiness. size infarction in the lateral pontine tegmentum corre- Clinical examination revealed a Glasgow coma scale of sponds probably also to a terminal perfusion zone of the 14/15 (with decreased alertness but arousable by minor anteromedial/anterolateral group, the lateral group, and the stimulation) and skew deviation (i.e., right higher than left posterior group (arising from the superior cerebellar artery) eye), in the absence of other abnormalities. MRI showed an of penetrating small arteries, sometimes also described as acute pontine infarction in the watershed area between the watershed infarction zone in the fetal and neonatal brain- anteromedial/anterolateral and the lateral group of pene- stem [1, 2]. Pontine infarction in the territory of the para- trating small arteries and a small size infarction http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Neurologica Belgica Springer Journals

Pontine watershed infarction

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Biomedicine; Neurosciences; Neurology; Neuroradiology; Medicine/Public Health, general
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Acta Neurol Belg (2014) 114:141–142 DOI 10.1007/s13760-013-0274-7 N E URO- IMA G ES • • Dimitri Renard Jonathan Broner Anne Le Floch Received: 18 November 2013 / Accepted: 23 December 2013 / Published online: 17 January 2014 Belgian Neurological Society 2014 A 45-year-old man with a history of overweight, smoking, the posterior inferior cerebellar artery or directly from the and untreated hypercholesterolemia presented with acute basilar artery—have been described). The associated small onset vertigo, nausea, right-sided tinnitus, and drowsiness. size infarction in the lateral pontine tegmentum corre- Clinical examination revealed a Glasgow coma scale of sponds probably also to a terminal perfusion zone of the 14/15 (with decreased alertness but arousable by minor anteromedial/anterolateral group, the lateral group, and the stimulation) and skew deviation (i.e., right higher than left posterior group (arising from the superior cerebellar artery) eye), in the absence of other abnormalities. MRI showed an of penetrating small arteries, sometimes also described as acute pontine infarction in the watershed area between the watershed infarction zone in the fetal and neonatal brain- anteromedial/anterolateral and the lateral group of pene- stem [1, 2]. Pontine infarction in the territory of the para- trating small arteries and a small size infarction

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Published: Jan 17, 2014

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