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A topodiagnostic investigation on body lateropulsion in medullary infarcts
F Thömke1, J J Marx, G D Iannetti
1Department of Neurology, University of Mainz, Langenbeckstr. 1, D-55101 Mainz, Germany. thoemke@neurologie.klinik.uni-mainz.de
Abstract:
Body lateropulsion may occur without signs of vestibular dysfunction and vestibular nucleus involvement. The authors examined 10 such patients with three-dimensional brainstem mapping. Body lateropulsion without limb ataxia reflected an impairment of vestibulospinal postural control caused by a lesion of the descending lateral vestibulospinal tract, whereas body lateropulsion with limb ataxia was probably the consequence of impaired or absent proprioceptive information caused by a lesion of the ascending dorsal spino-cerebellar tract.
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