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Neurological picture
Cerebellar swelling and massive brain stem distortion: spontaneous resolution documented by MRI
  1. EELCO F M WIJDICKS
  1. Department of Neurology
  2. Department of Neurosurgery (Neurology-Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit)
  3. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation
  1. Dr Eelco FM Wijdicks, Department of Neurology, W81, Mayo Medical Center, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Telephone 001 507 284 3333; fax 001 507 284 4795; emailWijde{at}mayo.edu
  1. TIMOTHY P MAUS
  1. Department of Neurology
  2. Department of Neurosurgery (Neurology-Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit)
  3. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation
  1. Dr Eelco FM Wijdicks, Department of Neurology, W81, Mayo Medical Center, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Telephone 001 507 284 3333; fax 001 507 284 4795; emailWijde{at}mayo.edu
  1. DAVID G PIEPGRAS
  1. Department of Neurology
  2. Department of Neurosurgery (Neurology-Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit)
  3. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation
  1. Dr Eelco FM Wijdicks, Department of Neurology, W81, Mayo Medical Center, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Telephone 001 507 284 3333; fax 001 507 284 4795; emailWijde{at}mayo.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.65.3.400

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    Left row: upper image: MRI on admission (T1 weighted image). Sagittal view showing a swollen cerebellar mass from infarction with effacement of the fourth ventricle and prepontine cistern. The superimposed line is drawn from the anterior tuberculum sellae to the confluence of the straight sinus, great cerebral vein of Galen, and inferior sagittal sinus. (The iter of the aqueduct …

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