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MRI confirming acute ischemic lesion eight-and-a-half syndrome due to pontine ischemic stroke

MRI confirming acute ischemic lesion in the dorsal pontine tegmentum (red circle) in a 77-year-old man with so-called eight-and-a-half syndrome due to a pontine ischemic stroke. (From: Almeida PL, Félix T, Evangelista R, Gomes A, Carmezim I. A rare case of eight-and-a-half syndrome due to a pontine ischemic stroke. Cureus 2025;17[6]:e85834. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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