What is Foville syndrome?
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What is Foville syndrome?
Inferior medial pontine syndrome, also known as Foville syndrome, is one of the brainstem stroke syndromes occurring when there is infarction of the medial inferior aspect of the pons due to occlusion of the paramedian branches of the basilar artery 1-3.
What is a pons lesion?
A lateral pontine syndrome is a lesion which is similar to the lateral medullary syndrome, but because it occurs in the pons, it also involves the cranial nerve nuclei of the pons. Lateral pontine syndrome. Pons. Specialty.
What causes Foville syndrome?
Foville’s syndrome is caused by the blockage of the perforating branches of the basilar artery in the region of the brainstem known as the pons. It is most frequently caused by vascular disease or tumors involving the dorsal pons.
What is upward gaze palsy?
Up gaze palsy is one of the most common initial presenting complaints in patients with PS and is present in 87-100% of patients. Limited upward gaze often leads to a preference for downward gaze in primary position and is described as the setting-sun sign.
What are localizing neurological signs?
Localization
| Site | Dysfunction | Typical symptoms/signs |
|---|---|---|
| Plexus (brachial or lumbosacral) | Plexopathy | Mixed nerve and root distribution |
| Spinal nerve root | Radiculopathy | Radicular pain; motor, sensory and reflex loss in specific root distribution |
| Nerve cell body | ||
| Anterior horn cell | “LMN disease” | LMN weakness and reflex loss |
What is Hemisensory loss?
[ hĕm′ĭ-sĕn′sə-rē ] n. Loss of sensation on one side of the body.
What are the symptoms of Weber Syndrome?
What are the symptoms of Sturge-Weber syndrome?
- Facial birthmark.
- Glaucoma, a condition in which the pressure inside the eyeballs is high. It can cause pain, swelling and — in severe cases — vision loss.
- Seizures.
- Developmental delays.
- Headaches or migraines.
- Hypothyroidism.
Which artery is damaged by Weber Syndrome?
Weber syndrome occurs with an occlusion of the median and/or paramedian perforating branches of the basilar artery. Typical clinical findings include ipsilateral CN III palsy, ptosis, and mydriasis (ie, damage to parasympathetic fibers of CN III) with contralateral hemiplegia.
What will happen if pons is damaged?
When the injury to the pons is complete, the patient may pass away. If a patient with a complete injury survives, he or she could develop locked in syndrome. In this syndrome, the person has no sensory or motor function, except for the ability to move their eyes up and down. Some people can also blink.
What is lateral pontine syndrome?
Abstract. Lateral pontine syndrome or Marie Foix Alajouanine syndrome refers to the brainstem stroke syndrome involving lateral pons due to the infarction in the distribution of the anterior inferior cerebellar artery. It involves the lateral inferior part of the pons, middle cerebellar peduncle, and floccular region.
What is Disconjugate gaze?
Dysconjugate gaze is a failure of the eyes to turn together in the same direction.
What are false localizing signs?
Neurological signs have been described as “false localising” if they reflect dysfunction distant or remote from the expected anatomical locus of pathology, hence challenging the traditional clinicoanatomical correlation paradigm on which neurological examination is based.
What is the origin of Millard Gubler syndrome?
Eponym. Millard–Gubler syndrome is named after two French physicians, Auguste Louis Jules Millard (1830–1915), who first identified the disorder in 1855, and Adolphe-Marie Gubler (1821–1879), who described the disease in a medical paper one year later.
What is Millard-Gubler syndrome ( ventral pontine syndrome)?
Dr Rohit Sharma and Dr Amir Rezaee et al. Millard-Gubler syndrome, also known as ventral pontine syndrome, is one of the crossed paralysis syndromes, which are characterised by cranial nerves VI and VII palsies with contralateral body motor or sensory disturbances 1-3.
What is the prognosis of Millard-Gubler syndrome (MGS)?
Patients with acute basilar artery occlusion have a high mortality. Millard-Gubler syndrome (MGS) is one of the classical brainstem-crossed syndromes caused due to a unilateral lesion in ventral pons, manifesting as ipsilateral palsy of CN VI and VII with contralateral hemiplegia.
What is the difference between Millard-Gubler syndrome and classical Raymond syndrome?
Classical Raymond syndrome also has the same components as Millard-Gubler syndrome, but there is ipsilateral sixth nerve palsy along with contralateral facial paresis and hemiplegia. Management mainly depends on the etiology of the disease.
