Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Volume 8 Issue 2
- /
- Pages.186-189
- /
- 2006
- /
- 2508-691X(pISSN)
- /
- 2508-6960(eISSN)
A Case of Peripheral Facial Palsy in Ponto-medullary Junction Area Infarction
말초성 안면신경 마비로 발현된 교뇌-연수 인접 부위 뇌경색 1예
- Cho, Jeong-Seon (Department of Neurology, Seoul Veterans Hospital) ;
- Kim, Doo-Eung (Department of Neurology, Seoul Veterans Hospital) ;
- Kim, Jung-Mee (Department of Neurology, Seoul Veterans Hospital) ;
- Han, Young-Su (Department of Neurology, Seoul Veterans Hospital) ;
- Ha, Sang-Won (Department of Neurology, Seoul Veterans Hospital) ;
- Park, Sang-Eun (Department of Neurology, Seoul Veterans Hospital) ;
- Han, Jeong-Ho (Department of Neurology, Seoul Veterans Hospital) ;
- Cho, Eun-Kyoung (Department of Neurology, Seoul Veterans Hospital)
- 조정선 (서울보훈병원 신경과) ;
- 김두응 (서울보훈병원 신경과) ;
- 김정미 (서울보훈병원 신경과) ;
- 한영수 (서울보훈병원 신경과) ;
- 하상원 (서울보훈병원 신경과) ;
- 박상은 (서울보훈병원 신경과) ;
- 한정호 (서울보훈병원 신경과) ;
- 조은경 (서울보훈병원 신경과)
- Published : 2006.12.30
Abstract
A 69 year-old woman was admitted with sudden left facial weakness. She had no other neurologic deficit, except for left peripheral type facial palsy. She had a presumptive diagnosis of Bell's palsy. The blink test was indicative of left facial neuropathy due to left medullary lesion. Diffusion weighted (DWI) brain MRI demonstrated high signal signal lesion in left dorsolateral ponto-medullary junction. Apperant diffusion coefficient (ADC) brain MRI showed low signal lesion in the same area. We present an unusual case of ipsilateral peripheral facial palsy in dosolateral ponto-medullary infarction without other neurologic deficits.