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Wallenberg's syndrome caused by a craniopharyngioma “en plaque”

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Wallenberg's syndrome is the clinical manifestation of the obliteration of arterial blood vessels supplying the dorsolateral part of the medulla oblongata, the posterior inferior cerebellar artery being involved in most cases. A patient is described in whom the typical features of Wallenberg's syndrome correlated with cystic necrosis in the perfusion area of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery. A craniopharyngioma spreading along the pons and involving the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, the basilar artery, and its branches was found to be responsible for the infarction of the dorsolateral medulla oblongata.

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Das Wallenberg-Syndrom stellt den klinischen Ausdruck eines Verschlusses der Arterien, die den dorso-lateralen Anteil der Oblongata versorgen, dar, namentlich der A. cerebellaris posterior inferior. Es wird ein Patient beschrieben, bei welchem die typischen Zeichen des Wallenberg-Syndromes mit entsprechender zystischer Nekrose im Ausbreitungsgebiet der oben erwähnten Kleinhirnarterie korrelierten. Ein Kraniopharyngeom hatte sich entlang der Brücke ausgedehnt und umfaßte die A. cerebellaris posterior inferior und die A. basilaris sowie ihre Äste und war für die oben genannte Erweichung im dorso-lateralen Anteil der Medulla oblongata verantwortlich.

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van den Bergh, P., Dom, R. Wallenberg's syndrome caused by a craniopharyngioma “en plaque”. J Neurol 229, 61–64 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00313497

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