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Superior Foville syndrome due to pontine hemorrhage: a case report
- Source :
- The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 25, Iss 215 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016.
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Abstract
- The Superior Foville Syndrome is a rare clinical feature of stroke or brain hemorrhage. Few cases have been reported worldwide particularly in Africa. We report the case of a 20 years old patient resident in Senegal with no known medical history. He was admitted on August 2015 in the Neurology Department of Fann National Teaching Hospital for an abrupt onset of left body side weakness, acute headaches and rotatory vertigo five days before admission. The physical examination found a superior Foville Syndrome. And the brain CT scan shown hemorrhage at the right inferior part of the pons compressing the fourth ventricle. No cause of this hemorrhage stroke has been found. Superior Foville syndrome is a rare clinical presentation of stroke and presented a rich semiological feature of the posterior cerebral fossa.
- Subjects :
- superior foville syndrome
hemorrhage
sénégal
Medicine
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Details
- Language :
- English, French
- ISSN :
- 19378688
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 215
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- The Pan African Medical Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.f51a1ede3be3486ea7bf8d21f65610ca
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.25.215.10648