Mesencephalic hemorrhage: a report of 3 cases.
- Author:
Seol Heui HAN
1
;
Jae Kyu ROH
;
Ho Jin MYUNG
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords: Mesencephalic hemorrhage; Abnormal ocular movements; Impaired consciousness
- MeSH: Adult; Cerebral Hemorrhage/*physiopathology/radiography; Humans; Male; Mesencephalon; Middle Aged; Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- From:Journal of Korean Medical Science 1989;4(1):1-5
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: We studied three patients with spontaneous mesencephalic hemorrhages. All presented with some degree of impaired consciousness and abnormal ocular movements. One patient had a convergence-retraction nystagmus with a unilateral hemorrhage confined to the dorsal midbrain. Another patient showed left third nerve palsy due to a unilateral hemorrhage that involved ventral midbrain. The third patient revealed left internuclear ophthalmoplegia with ataxia due to a pinpoint hemorrhage in the tegmentum of the left midbrain. The patients survived and major neurologic deficits recovered, but abnormal ocular movements persisted.
