Pure Sensory Stroke Due to a Pontine Lacune

Hommel, M. MD
Besson, G. MD
Pollak, P. MD
Borgel, F. MD
Le Bas, J. F. MD
Perret, J. MD

From the Clinique Neurologique (M.H., G.B., P.P., F.B., J.P.) and the MRI Unit (J.F.L.B.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble, Grenoble, France.

Address for correspondence: M. Hommel, Clinique Neurologique, BP 217 X, 38043 Grenoble, Cedex, France.

Received June 2, 1988; accepted September 1, 1988.

Stroke 20(3):p 406-408, March 1989.

A 53-year-old hypertensive man presented with the sudden onset of an Isolated lemniscal sensory syndrome of the entire left side of his body. Magnetic resonance Images showed a small lacune in the right paramedian pons corresponding to the location of the medial Iemniscus. (Stroke 1989;20:406–408)