Eight-and-a-half syndrome.
Eight-and-a-half syndrome is a clinical entity comprised of one-and-a-half syndrome with ipsilateral facial palsy. We report a case who presented with this constellation of findings with diffusion weighted images (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) changes corresponding to the anatomical correlate in the dorsal pontine tegmentum.
Sarwal
Aarti
A
University of Missouri-Columbia-Neurology, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA. sarwala@health.missouri.edu
Garewal
Mandeep
M
Sahota
Sheena
S
Sivaraman
Manjamalai
M
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