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01-06-2020 | Facial Palsy | Letter to the Editor
Ipsilateral supranuclear lingual palsy due to caudal paramedian pontine infarction
Authors:
Yoshiyuki Numasawa, Zen Kobayashi
Published in:
Acta Neurologica Belgica
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Issue 3/2020
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Excerpt
A 79-year-old man suddenly developed right upper limb weakness and dysarthria. Neurologic examination revealed right hemiparesis, right hemisensory disturbance, right central facial palsy, and tongue deviation to the left (Fig.
1a). T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging showed the infarct lesion in the left paramedian pons at the level of the middle cerebellar peduncles, but the ventral paramedian portion was spared (Fig.
1b, c). …