Body Lateropulsion and Cerebellar Tremor in a Patient with Pontine Infarction

Body lateropulsion is known to be caused commonly by lateral medullary lesions but rarely by pontine lesions. It is also known to be associated with lesions of the dorsal spinothalamic tract or ascending graviceptive pathways. We herein report the case of a 75-year-old woman presenting with contrala...

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Autores principales: Hosaka, Ai, Tsunoda, Ryoya, Yamaguchi, Tetsuto, Shibagaki, Yasuro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28250306
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description Body lateropulsion is known to be caused commonly by lateral medullary lesions but rarely by pontine lesions. It is also known to be associated with lesions of the dorsal spinothalamic tract or ascending graviceptive pathways. We herein report the case of a 75-year-old woman presenting with contralateral lateropulsion and cerebellar tremor caused by pons infarction. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of pontine infarction causing both lateropulsion and cerebellar tremor. Our case may be helpful in anatomical studies of ascending graviceptive pathways.
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spelling pubmed-53992112017-04-24 Body Lateropulsion and Cerebellar Tremor in a Patient with Pontine Infarction Hosaka, Ai Tsunoda, Ryoya Yamaguchi, Tetsuto Shibagaki, Yasuro Intern Med Case Report Body lateropulsion is known to be caused commonly by lateral medullary lesions but rarely by pontine lesions. It is also known to be associated with lesions of the dorsal spinothalamic tract or ascending graviceptive pathways. We herein report the case of a 75-year-old woman presenting with contralateral lateropulsion and cerebellar tremor caused by pons infarction. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of pontine infarction causing both lateropulsion and cerebellar tremor. Our case may be helpful in anatomical studies of ascending graviceptive pathways. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5399211/ /pubmed/28250306 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_short Body Lateropulsion and Cerebellar Tremor in a Patient with Pontine Infarction
title_sort body lateropulsion and cerebellar tremor in a patient with pontine infarction
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