Babinski–Nageotte syndrome

When Babinski - Nageotte syndrome, rare short called Babinski syndrome, is an alternating brainstem syndrome. It occurs when damage to the dorsolateral, ie the rear lateral medulla oblongata ( medulla ) on. It is therefore also known as alternating medulla oblongata - syndrome.

It is an alternating ( from Lat changing, different on both sides) syndrome, as it occurs both in neurological deficits crossed and uncrossed nerve fibers or webs. In other words, the manifest neurological deficits, based on the location of the damage on the same (homo -, ipsilateral ) or opposite ( contralateral ) side of the body. When Babinski - Nageotte syndrome occurs on the ipsilateral side to a cerebellar ataxia and Horner 's syndrome, on the contralateral side, however, to decreased sensitivity and paralysis ( Hemihypästhesie and hemiparesis ).

The Babinski - Nageotte syndrome was named after the French-Polish neurologist Joseph Babinski and the French anatomist Jean Nageotte, who published in 1902 a description of the clinical picture in two papers.