Two patients developed hemiataxia: one with diplopia suggesting brainstem dysfunction and the other probably resulting from cerebellar diaschisis due to contralateral status epilepticus. In all but ...

A 79-year-old man was admitted for 2 weeks of dizziness, followed by diplopia, involuntary movement and progressive gait disturbances. Neurologic examination revealed horizontal and vertical gaze ...

Two months earlier he had undergone surgery for chronic sinusitis. Immediately after this procedure, he developed hemiparesis, hemiataxia, paresthesias and disturbances in verbal fluency. Cranial MRI ...

[1] a Neurology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Sakura Medical Center, Toho University, Sakura, Japan [2] b Department of Neurosurgery, Sakura Medical Center, Toho University, Sakura, Japan ...

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We report on a 63-year-old woman with ischemic stroke of the right cerebellar hemisphere. Her symptoms, consisting of acute gait ataxia and left hemiataxia, were resolved in the following weeks, but ...