Dysphagia caused by a lateral medullary infarction syndrome (Wallenberg's syndrome)

A 68-year-old man was referred to our hospital for a dysphagia evolving for 10 days. Clinical examination had found neurological signs as contralateral Horner's syndrome, ipsilateral palatal paresis, gait ataxia and hoarseness. Video-fluoroscopy showed a lack of passage of contrast medium to th...

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Autores principales: El Mekkaoui, Amine, Irhoudane, Hanane, Ibrahimi, Adil, El Yousfi, Mounia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3473978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23077713
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author El Mekkaoui, Amine
Irhoudane, Hanane
Ibrahimi, Adil
El Yousfi, Mounia
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description A 68-year-old man was referred to our hospital for a dysphagia evolving for 10 days. Clinical examination had found neurological signs as contralateral Horner's syndrome, ipsilateral palatal paresis, gait ataxia and hoarseness. Video-fluoroscopy showed a lack of passage of contrast medium to the distal esophagus. Esogastroduodenoscopy was normal. The cranial MRI had shown an acute ischemic stroke in the left lateral medullar region and the diagnosis of Wallenberg syndrome (WS) was established. WS remains an unknown cause of dysphagia in the clinical practice of the gastroenterologist.
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spelling pubmed-34739782012-10-17 Dysphagia caused by a lateral medullary infarction syndrome (Wallenberg's syndrome) El Mekkaoui, Amine Irhoudane, Hanane Ibrahimi, Adil El Yousfi, Mounia Pan Afr Med J Case Report A 68-year-old man was referred to our hospital for a dysphagia evolving for 10 days. Clinical examination had found neurological signs as contralateral Horner's syndrome, ipsilateral palatal paresis, gait ataxia and hoarseness. Video-fluoroscopy showed a lack of passage of contrast medium to the distal esophagus. Esogastroduodenoscopy was normal. The cranial MRI had shown an acute ischemic stroke in the left lateral medullar region and the diagnosis of Wallenberg syndrome (WS) was established. WS remains an unknown cause of dysphagia in the clinical practice of the gastroenterologist. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3473978/ /pubmed/23077713 Text en © Amine El Mekkaoui et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dysphagia caused by a lateral medullary infarction syndrome (Wallenberg's syndrome)
title Dysphagia caused by a lateral medullary infarction syndrome (Wallenberg's syndrome)
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title_short Dysphagia caused by a lateral medullary infarction syndrome (Wallenberg's syndrome)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3473978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23077713
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