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From the Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Received January 23, 1995. Accepted in final form May 26, 1995.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. C. Bassetti, Neurologische Klinik, Inselspital, 3008 Bern, Switzerland.
Article abstract-We studied 36 patients with MRI-proven isolated acute pontine infarct. Corresponding to the constant territories of intrinsic pontine vessels, infarcts followed a predictable distribution, enabling us to delineate three main syndromes. Twenty-one patients had a ventral pontine infarct. Motor involvement varied from mild hemiparesis (ventrolateral pontine syndrome) to severe hemiparesis with bilateral ataxia and dysarthria (ventromedial pontine syndrome). In addition, three-fourths of the patients had clinical evidence for usually mild tegmental dysfunction. Eleven patients had a tegmental pontine infarct, presenting tegmental signs (eye movement disorders, cranial nerve palsies, sensory disturbances), and mostly mild motor deficits (tegmental pontine syndrome). Only four patients had alternating deficits, and these never corresponded to any of the so-called classic pontine syndromes. Infarcts in the medial and the extreme lateral tegmental territory were never observed in isolation, being always associated with cerebellar or larger (and multiple) infarctions in the posterior circulation. Four patients with a bilateral ventrotegmental pontine infarct presented with acute pseudobulbar palsy, bilateral motor deficits, and tegmental signs.
The results of etiologic work-up emphasize the concept of basilar artery branch disease, which was the most common presumed cause of stroke (16/36, 44%). Basilar artery branch disease was particularly associated with large ventral infarcts, severe clinical symptomatology, progressive or fluctuating course, and local recurrence. Presumed small-artery disease (9/36, 25%) was usually associated with small ventral or tegmental infarcts and rapidly improving lacunar syndromes. Large-artery stenosis (8/36, 22%) and cardioembolism (1/36, 3%) were less common than in series of posterior circulation infarcts that include simultaneous pontine and extrapontine lesions.
Recovery was good in two-thirds of the patients, the worse outcome being associated with large ventral infarcts.
NEUROLOGY 1996;46: 165-175
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