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Review
. 2003 Sep;42(9):871-4.
doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.871.

Babinski-Nageotte syndrome due to vertebral artery dissection

Fumi Irie  1 , Kazunori Toyoda, Noriko Hagiwara, Shigeru Fujimoto, Yasushi Okada
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Review

Babinski-Nageotte syndrome due to vertebral artery dissection

Fumi Irie et al. Intern Med. 2003 Sep.
Free article

Abstract

Hemimedullary infarction, which presents Babinski-Nageotte syndrome, has been mainly reported to result from atherosclerotic occlusion of the vertebral artery. A 54-year-old housewife with right nuchal pain developed Wallenberg's syndrome followed by left hemiparesis. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging documented fresh infarcts in the right hemimedulla and right dorsal cerebellum. Angiography revealed dissection of the right vertebral artery as a cause of the infarcts. Anterograde progression of the dissection might cause stepwise evolution of her neurological symptoms.

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