Normal mental state despite bilateral pontine tegmental hemorrhage.
Alertness was preserved in a 47-year-old hypertensive man who acutely develop headache, cranial nerve abnormalities, weakness and dysmetria. Computerized tomography revealed a bilateral pontine tegmental hemorrhage. This is the first well-documented case of bilateral pontine tegmental hemorrhage with a completely normal mental status.
D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D011149:Pons; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed