Body lateropulsion may occur without signs of vestibular dysfunction and vestibular nucleus involvement. The authors examined 10 such patients with three-dimensional brainstem mapping. Body lateropulsion without limb ataxia reflected an impairment of vestibulospinal postural control caused by a lesion of the descending lateral vestibulospinal tract, whereas body lateropulsion with limb ataxia was probably the consequence of impaired or absent proprioceptive information caused by a lesion of the ascending dorsal spinocerebellar tract.

A topodiagnostic investigation on body lateropulsion in medullary infarcts / F., Thomke; J. J., Marx; G. D., Iannetti; Cruccu, Giorgio; S., Fitzek; P. P., Urban; P., Stoeter; M., Dieterich; H. C., Hopf. - In: NEUROLOGY. - ISSN 0028-3878. - 64:4(2005), pp. 716-718. [10.1212/01.wnl.0000152040.27264.1a]

A topodiagnostic investigation on body lateropulsion in medullary infarcts

CRUCCU, Giorgio;
2005

Abstract

Body lateropulsion may occur without signs of vestibular dysfunction and vestibular nucleus involvement. The authors examined 10 such patients with three-dimensional brainstem mapping. Body lateropulsion without limb ataxia reflected an impairment of vestibulospinal postural control caused by a lesion of the descending lateral vestibulospinal tract, whereas body lateropulsion with limb ataxia was probably the consequence of impaired or absent proprioceptive information caused by a lesion of the ascending dorsal spinocerebellar tract.
2005
ataxia; brain mapping; complications/physiopathology; deglutition disorders; diagnosis; diagnosis/etiology/physiopathology; differential; diffusion magnetic resonance imaging; etiology; horner syndrome; humans; lateral medullary syndrome; prospective studies; sensation disorders; vertebrobasilar insufficiency; vestibular diseases
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A topodiagnostic investigation on body lateropulsion in medullary infarcts / F., Thomke; J. J., Marx; G. D., Iannetti; Cruccu, Giorgio; S., Fitzek; P. P., Urban; P., Stoeter; M., Dieterich; H. C., Hopf. - In: NEUROLOGY. - ISSN 0028-3878. - 64:4(2005), pp. 716-718. [10.1212/01.wnl.0000152040.27264.1a]
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