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  2. Weber's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Weber's syndrome, also known as midbrain stroke syndrome or superior alternating hemiplegia, is a form of stroke that affects the medial portion of the midbrain. It involves oculomotor fascicles in the interpeduncular cisterns and cerebral peduncle so it characterizes the presence of an ipsilateral lower motor neuron type oculomotor nerve palsy and contralateral hemiparesis or hemiplegia.

  3. Alternating hemiplegia - Wikipedia

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    Alternating hemiplegia (also known as crossed hemiplegia) is a form of hemiplegia that has an ipsilateral cranial nerve palsies and contralateral hemiplegia or hemiparesis of extremities of the body. The disorder is characterized by recurrent episodes of paralysis on one side of the body. [ 1 ]

  4. Brown-Séquard syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Brown-Séquard syndrome (also known as Brown-Séquard's hemiplegia, Brown-Séquard's paralysis, hemiparaplegic syndrome, hemiplegia et hemiparaplegia spinalis, or spinal hemiparaplegia) is caused by damage to one half of the spinal cord, i.e. hemisection of the spinal cord resulting in paralysis and loss of proprioception on the same (or ipsilateral) side as the injury or lesion, and loss of ...

  5. Hemiparesis - Wikipedia

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    Hemiplegia, in its most severe form, is the complete paralysis of one entire side of the body. Either hemiparesis or hemiplegia can result from a variety of medical causes, including congenital conditions, trauma, tumors, traumatic brain injury and stroke.

  6. Claude's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Claude's syndrome is a form of brainstem stroke syndrome characterized by the presence of an ipsilateral oculomotor nerve palsy, contralateral hemiparesis, contralateral ataxia, and contralateral hemiplegia of the lower face, tongue, and shoulder.

  7. Contralateral brain - Wikipedia

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    The contralateral organization involves both executive and sensory functions (e.g., a left-sided brain lesion may cause a right-sided hemiplegia). The contralateral organization is only present in vertebrates. A number of theories have been put forward to explain this phenomenon, but none are generally accepted. [1]

  8. Medial pontine syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Medial inferior pontine syndrome is a condition associated with a contralateral hemiplegia. [ citation needed ] "Medial inferior pontine syndrome" has been described as equivalent to Foville's syndrome .

  9. Medial medullary syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Impaired tactile, proprioceptive, and vibration sense of trunk and limbs (contralateral medial lemniscus) Medial medullary syndrome , also known as inferior alternating syndrome , hypoglossal alternating hemiplegia , lower alternating hemiplegia , [ 1 ] or Dejerine syndrome , [ 2 ] is a type of alternating hemiplegia characterized by a set of ...