Key Clinical Message
Opalski syndrome is a rare vascular brainstem syndrome which is accepted as a variant of Wallenberg syndrome. Opalski syndrome should be considered in acute conditions in which typical symptoms of lateral medullary infarct are accompanied by ipsilateral hemiparesis. Other brain stem syndromes are distinguished from Opalski syndrome by the presence of contralateral hemiparesis.
Re cei ved/Ge lifl Ta ri hi: 05.07.2019 Ac cep ted/Ka bul Ta ri hi: 01.10.2019 The study was conducted from the neurology speciality thesis of Güven AYAZ. Our study was presented as a poster on May 26-28, 2017 at the 7 th Ali Özeren School of Cerebrovascular Diseases (with the number P-067).
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