Foville's syndrome is caused by the blockage of the perforating branches of the basilar artery in the region of the brainstem known as the pons.[1] It is most frequently caused by lesions such as vascular disease and tumors involving the dorsal pons.
| Foville's syndrome | |
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| Specialty | Neurology  |
Structures affected by the lesion are the dorsal pons (pontine tegmentum) which comprises paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF), nuclei of cranial nerves VI and VII, corticospinal tract, medial lemniscus, and the medial longitudinal fasciculus. There is involvement of the fifth to eighth cranial nerves, central sympathetic fibres (Horner syndrome) and horizontal gaze palsy.[citation needed]
Presentation
editThis produces ipsilateral horizontal gaze palsy and facial nerve palsy and contralateral hemiparesis, hemisensory loss, and internuclear ophthalmoplegia.[citation needed]
Diagnosis
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Treatment
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History
editFoville's syndrome was initially described by Achille-Louis Foville, a French physician, in 1859.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Foville syndrome". GPnotebook.
- ^ Foville, ALF (1859). "Note sur une paralysie peu connue de certains muscles de l'oeil, et sa liaison avec quelques points de l'anatomie de la physiologie de la protubérance annulaire". Gazette Hebdomadaire de Médecine et de Chirurgie. 6: 146.
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