Gasperini syndrome, a report of two cases.
We report 2 cases of Gasperini syndrome and consider them with the 11 previously reported cases to describe the clinical characteristics of this rare syndrome: Core neurological signs are peripheral facial nerve palsy and abducens nerve palsy of the affected side: Among all cases, imaging demonstrated a small lesion in the mediolateral tegmental pons (10/13 cases of microinfarction; 2/13 cases of microbleeding). We found that the responsible artery in ischemic Gasperini syndrome is mainly the long circumferential branch of the anterior inferior cerebellar artery; Case 1 is the first case thought to be caused by infarction of the basilar artery's paramedian branch.
Hayashi-Hayata
Miwa
M
The Department of Neurology, Tottori Prefectural Central Hospital. hayamiwa@grape.med.tottori-u.ac.jp
Nakayasu
Hiroyuki
H
Doi
Mitsuru
M
Fukada
Yasuyo
Y
Murakami
Takenobu
T
Nakashima
Kenji
K
D020526:Brain Stem Infarctions / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D003389:Cranial Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013577:Syndrome; D013681:Tegmentum Mesencephali