Gasperini syndrome as clinical manifestation of pontine demyelination
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Gasperini syndrome as clinical manifestation of pontine demyelination
The Gasperini syndrome is a very rare brainstem disease characterized by the typical combination of ipsilateral lesions of the cranial nerves V-VII and dissociated contralateral hemihypesthesia, whereas both contralateral and ipsilateral hypacusis was described. Since the first description in 1912, only a few cases of this crossed brainstem syndrome were published so far. Pontine infarction and...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Medical Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2047-783X
DOI: 10.1186/2047-783x-14-9-413