[Oculomotor disorders caused by thalamo-peduncular infarction after vertebral artery dissection]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1993;149(12):799-801.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A case of left vertebral artery dissection after neck manipulation associated with an ipsilateral thalamo-peduncular infarct by distal embolism is reported. The oculomotor signs observed are explained for the left eye by an intra-axial third nerve lesion, and for the right eye by a limitation of the horizontal gaze to the right and an upgaze palsy of supranuclear origin. The association of infra and supranuclear lesions without nuclear lesion in thalamo-peduncular infarcts is considered.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aortic Dissection / complications*
  • Cerebral Infarction / complications*
  • Cerebral Infarction / diagnosis
  • Cranial Nerve Diseases / etiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Oculomotor Nerve*
  • Thalamus
  • Vertebral Artery*