Bilateral medial medullary infarct causing stepwise tetraparesis: delayed appearance of the 'heart-shaped' sign

Pract Neurol. 2023 Oct;23(5):430-431. doi: 10.1136/pn-2023-003732. Epub 2023 May 5.

Authors

Yasmin Aghajan¹, Lynn Daboul², Bradley J Molyneaux²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA yaghajan@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

PMID: 37147121
DOI: 10.1136/pn-2023-003732

No abstract available

Keywords: medulla infarction; stroke.

MeSH terms

Brain Stem Infarctions* / complications
Brain Stem Infarctions* / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Infarction*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Medulla Oblongata / diagnostic imaging