Electroencephalographic changes in acute brain stem vascular lesions

Abstract

The eeg findings in 31 cases of acute vascular accident of the brain stem[long dash]mesencephalon, pons, and medulla[long dash]have been reviewed. Mild to minor eeg findings, nonspecific in location and character, are not infrequently found. Such eeg findings as have been described are not at all inconsistent with an acute brain stem vascular lesion, whereas a markedly abnormal eeg should be strongly suggestive of at least some pathology in addition to a vascular accident in the brain stem.