A Case: Eight-and-A-Half Syndrome

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.