| Literature DB >> 10935834 |
A Morini1, L Rozza, V Manera, M Buganza, E Tranquillini, D Orrico.
Abstract
The authors report two patients with isolated unilateral tongue atrophy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain stem and angio-MRI demonstrated a dolichovertebral artery with an abnormal course compressing the medulla oblongata at the emergence of the hypoglossal rootlets. The semeiological observation of a sectorial and not uniform distribution of atrophy in the half-affected tongue is discussed in relation to the lesional site.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 10935834 DOI: 10.1007/bf02341786
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ital J Neurol Sci ISSN: 0392-0461