Clinical Applications & Brainstem Lesions Flashcards
What are the midbrain vascular territories?
- Paramedian branches at top of Basilar Artery
- Proximal Posterior Cerebral Artery
- Superior Cerebellar Artery
What are the rostral pons vascular territories?
- Basilar Artery (Paramedian branches, Circumferential branches)
- Superior Cerebellar Arteries (supply superior cerebellar peduncles)
What are the caudal pons vascular territories?
- Basilar artery (paramedian branches & circumferential branches)
- Anterior inferior cerebellar artery
What are the medulla vascular territories?
- Vertebral arteries & anterior spinal artery (paramedian branches)
- Posterior inferior cerebellar arteries
What vasculature is implicated in the medial medullary syndrome?
Paramedian branches of vertebral and anterior spinal arteries
What are the symptoms of the medial medullar syndrome?
- Contralateral arm & leg weakness
- Contralateral position & vibration sense impaired
- ipsilateral tongue weakness
What vasculature is implicated in lateral medullary syndrome?
Posterior inferior cerebellar artery (and/or vertebral artery)
What are the symptoms of lateral medullary syndrome?
- Ipsilateral ataxia, vertigo, nystagmus & nausea
- Ipsilateral facial pain & temp sense impaired
- Contralateral body pain & temp sense impaired
- Ipsilateral Horner’s syndrome
- Hoarseness, dysphagia
- Ipsilateral decreased taste
What vasculature is implicated in medial pontine basis infarcts?
Paramedian branches of Basilar Artery
What are the symptoms of medial pontine basis infarcts?
- Contralateral weakness of face arm & leg
- Dysarthria
- Contralateral (or ipsilateral ataxia)
- Ipsilateral face weakness
- Ipsilateral horizontal gaze palsy
- internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO)
- Contralateral body position & vibration sense impaired
What vasculature is implicated in lateral caudal pons (AICA syndrome)?
Anterior inferior cerebellar artery & labyrinthine artery
What are the symptoms of lateral caudal pons infarcts?
- Ipsilateral ataxia
- Vertigo, nystagmus
- Ipsilateral fascial pain & temp sense impaired
- Contralateral body pain & temp sense impaired
- Ipsilateral Horner’s Syndrome
- Ipsilateral hearing loss
What are the symptoms of superior cerebellar artery syndrome?
Ipsilateral ataxia
Damage were causes locked in syndrome?
Bilateral ventral pons (Basilar artery)
What are symptoms of locked in syndrome?
absent motor function bilaterally