Medial pontine syndrome
Pons. (Medial pontine syndrome affects structures at the bottom of the diagram: the corticospinal tract, abducens nerve, and occasionally the facial nerve. Medial lemniscus is also affected, but not pictured.)
Specialty	Neurology

Medial inferior pontine syndrome is a condition associated with a contralateral hemiplegia.^{[ citation needed]}"Medial inferior pontine syndrome" has been described as equivalent to Foville's syndrome. ^[1]

Presentation

Although medial pontine syndrome has many similarities to medial medullary syndrome, because it is located higher up the brainstem in the pons, it affects a different set of cranial nuclei.^{[ citation needed]}

Depending upon the size of the infarct, it can also involve the facial nerve.

Cause

Medial pontine syndrome results from occlusion of paramedian branches of the basilar artery.^{[ citation needed]}

Diagnosis

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Treatment

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See also

• Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
• Lateral medullary syndrome
• Lateral pontine syndrome
• Medial medullary syndrome
• Weber's syndrome

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