case study

http://www.umassmed.edu/strokestop/dataviews/caseindex.html

brainstem

3 parts:

1. Ventral: contains motor pathways
2. middle: contains sensory pathway
3. dorsal: contains Cranial nerve nuclei

- Muscles of mastication and forehead muscles have bilateral supply while facial muscle  have unilateral supply .

-crossed sensory loss : lesion is between mid pons and c2 level. 

cerebeller lesion, cranial nerve lesion are ipsilateral, cr

neuro Differential diagnosis

http://books.google.com/books?id=tnah3LN7XmcC&pg=PP1&dq=john+patten+neurological#v=onepage&q=john%20patten%20neurological&f=false

Rule of 4 for brainstem lesion

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Rule_of_4_Brainstem1.pdf?9d7bd4

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rule-of-4-Illustration-Tor-Ercleve.jpg?9d7bd4

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/05/using-the-brainstem-2/

clinical Case

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/education/clinical-cases/

HOw to read ct brain

http://www.neurosurvival.ca/ComputerAssistedLearning/readingCTs/how_to_read_a_ct_image.htm

Localisation of lesion

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/05/brainstem-rules-of-4/

Images:
http://rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/kiosk_image.html?mode=&imid=37944&pt_id=11166&quiz=no&page=&th=&map=&skiprows=&this_week=&skipcases=0&maxcases=5&sth=-1#pic