BACKGROUND The study aimed to prospectively observe the clinical and neuroimaging features of pontine infarction with pure motor hemiparesis (PMH) or hemiplegia at early stage. METHODS In 118 consecutive selected patients with the first-ever ischemic stroke within 6 hours after onset, fifty of them presented with PMH or hemiplegia and had negative acute computed tomography (CT) scans, then ma...

Background: The sporadic type of Hemiplegic Migraine (HM) is sometimes observed among migrainous patients (MP) and mimics ischemic strokes. Methods: In an evaluation of two-hundred consecutive adult MP in the Mackenzie headache clinic, Canada during 2004 , 9% of the patients met the criteria established by the International Headache Society for sporadic HM. Female to male sex ratio, family...

Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy syndrome (HHE) is a rare outcome of prolonged hemiconvulsion that is followed by diffuse unilateral hemispheric edema, hemiplegia, and ultimately hemiatrophy of the affected hemisphere and epilepsy. Here, we describe the case of a 3-year-old male with a 1;3 translocation leading to a terminal 1q43q44 deletion and a terminal 3p26.1p26.3 duplication that develop...