title: Transient urinary retention in acute right lateral medullary infarction.
abstract: Urinary disturbance has rarely been reported in patients with a medullary lesion. We evaluated a patient with acute infarction in the right lateral medulla who had voiding difficulty as an initial manifestation. Urodynamic study showed detrusor areflexia on voiding, and the voiding symptom completely recovered 2 weeks after the stroke onset. The urinary retention in this patient might be caused by interruption of descending fibers from facilitatory pontine tegmentum micturition centers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, SOONCHUNHYANG University, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea. kblee@hosp.sch.ac.kr
authors.forename: Kyung Bok
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Il Mi
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Hakjae
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Roh
authors.forename: Moo Young
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Hee Yeon
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Woo
mesh_terms: D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D020526:Brain Stem Infarctions / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016055:Urinary Retention / Q000209:etiology*