What WALLENBERG'S SYNDROME means: Wallenberg's Syndrome - Also called Lateral medullary syndrome and posterior inferior cerebellar artery syndrome, is a disease in which the patient has difficulty with swallowing or speaking or both owing to one or more patches of dead tissue caused by interrupted blood supply to parts of the brain. This syndrome is characterized by sensory deficits affecting the trunk and extremities on the opposite side of the infarct and sensory and motor deficits affecting the face and cranial nerves on the same side with the infarct. Other clinical symptoms and findings are ataxia, facial pain, vertigo, nystagmus, Horner's syndrome, diplopia and dysphagia.
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- Dictionary Disease - is a rare infectious disease that typically infects the bowel. It causes malabsorption primarily but may affect any part of the body including the heart, lungs, brain, joints, and eyes. It wallenberg's syndrome explain.
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