A Case:  Eight-and-A-Half Syndrome

Cennet Nalan Kuş

Cennet Nalan Kuş

Neurology Clinic, State Hospital, Aydin, Turkey

Keywords: Eight-and-a-half syndrome, one-and-a-half syndrome, pontine infarct

Abstract

Scientific BACKGROUND: The combination of clinical one-and-a-half syndrome together with cranial nerve VII palsy is known to as eight-and-a-half syndrome. It localized the pathology to the pons.

OBJECTIVE: To report a case having clinical and radiologic findings typical of eight-and-a-half syndrome.

CASE: 65 year old man with hypertension presented with sudden onset of binocular diplopia left facial weakness. Magnetic resonance imaging demostrated a small lesion in the left paramedian pontine tegmentum.

CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report of a case of eight-and-a-half syndrome in Turkish literature.