Pure sensory stroke due to a pontine lacune

Stroke. 1989 Mar;20(3):406-8. doi: 10.1161/01.str.20.3.406.

Abstract

A 53-year-old hypertensive man presented with the sudden onset of an isolated lemniscal sensory syndrome of the entire left side of his body. Magnetic resonance images showed a small lacune in the right paramedian pons corresponding to the location of the medial lemniscus.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cerebral Infarction / complications*
  • Cerebral Infarction / diagnosis
  • Cerebrovascular Disorders / etiology*
  • Cerebrovascular Disorders / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / complications
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pons* / pathology
  • Sensation / physiology*