Panel B shows the histopathological findings at autopsy in a patient who had extensive bilateral infarction of the pons as a result of a basilar-artery embolism (Luxol fast blue). The extracranial ...

The strokes can come from vertebral and basilar cerebral arteries ... of circulation problems affecting your pons. Embolism. An embolism is a blocked artery that begins in the heart or another ...

and 2 points to infarction of 50% or more on one side of the pons or midbrain. Scores were not available for four patients in the thrombectomy group. The location of the basilar-artery occlusion ...

Basilar Artery Aneurysm. Axial MRI scans of the brain. (Left) T1-weighted image; (Right) T2-weighted image. Note the circular mass compressing the upper pons. The circular mass is a fusiform basilar ...

Note the bright signal in the right pons. On the diffusion-weighted image, the lesion is bright, denoting that it is acute. This infarct is in the distribution of one perforating branch of the basilar ...

American gymnastic legend Kurt Thomas passed away June 5 at the age of 64. Thomas died nearly two weeks after suffering bleeding from his basilar artery, which led to a severe stroke. His wife ...

Branches of the basilar artery supplying the medulla and lower pons include the posterior inferior cerebellar artery and anterior inferior cerebellar artery. Branches supplying the pons include ...

A basilar artery stroke is a stroke affecting the back of the brain. It can occur when the basilar artery, which provides blood to the posterior areas of the brain, becomes blocked or ruptured.

Among the most feared and devastating strokes are ones caused by blockages in the brain's critical basilar artery system. They can cause head-to-toe paralysis called "locked-in syndrome.

Migraine with brainstem aura or MBA (formerly known as basilar migraines) are headaches that start in the lower part of the brain, called the brainstem. They cause symptoms such as dizziness ...

Doctors previously called this type of migraine basilar migraine or basilar artery migraine. Newer research suggests that it likely is not due to basilar artery spasms, but many people may still ...