Bilateral medial bulbar infarct related to dolichoectasia of the vertebral artery |
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| Authors: | OH Del Brutto J Sánchez A Mosquera X Campos |
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| Affiliation: | Departamento de Neurología, Hospital Luis Vernaza, Guayaquil, Ecuador. odbrutto@telconet.net |
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| Abstract: | INTRODUCTION AND CLINICAL CASE: A 58-year-old hypertensive man presented with the sudden onset of quadriplegia and inability to protrude the tongue. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a bilateral medial medullary infarction associated with an abnormally dilated and partially occluded vertebral artery. CONCLUSION: This is the first clinicoradiological report of a bilateral medial medullary infarction related to vertebral artery dolichoectasia. |
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