Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome--Revisited.

the right side. All the findings favoured diagnosis of Dyke David -Masson syndrome. Significant contrasting feature in our patient than the patient described in the journal was the presence of left sided cerebellar atrophy (Figure 1). DykeDavidoff-Masson syndrome associated with crossed cerebellar atrophy (CCA) has been previously described in some pat ients . There are two schools of thought regarding occurrence of CCA, (1) the underlying pathogenesis of CCA may involve damage to the corticoponto-cerebellar tracts or centrolobular cerebel lar sc leros is due to e f fec ts of repeated episodes of seizure, (2) but according to a survey done in patients with unilateral precocious destructive brain insults, the extent of the supratentorial lesion and the Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome Revisited