Haemorrhagic and ischaemic strokes are the two subtypes of stroke. Bell’s palsy usually presents with an isolated facial nerve palsy. A lacunar infarct involving the lower pons is a rare cause of ...

It is unclear if risk differs between ischaemic stroke subtypes. Lacunar strokes might be less likely to affect cognition than more severe, larger cortical strokes, except that lacunar strokes are ...

We describe a man with tonic spasms associated with a lacunar infarction in the right ventral pons. Involuntary tonic spasms of a paretic limb developed acutely in a 69-year-old hypertensive man with ...

1 Acute Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology ... There are important differences between DCHS and non-lacunar strokes. Internal capsule and pons are the most frequent cerebral sites.

Up to 40% of ischemic strokes meet the definition of embolic stroke of undetermined ... occipital regions, left pontine and midbrain areas, and bilateral thalami/internal capsules, as well as probable ...