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Foville's syndrome
Classification and external resources
Pons
ICD-10	G 46.3
ICD-9	344.89
DiseasesDB	32782
MeSH	D020526

Foville's syndrome is caused by the blockage of the perforating branches of the basilar artery in the region of the brainstem known as the pons.^[1]

Structures affected by the infarct are the PPRF, nuclei of cranial nerves VI and VII, corticospinal tract, medial lemniscus, and the medial longitudinal fasciculus.

Presentation

This produces ipsilateral horizontal gaze palsy and facial nerve palsy and contralateral hemiparesis, hemisensory loss, and internuclear ophthalmoplegia.

History

Foville's syndrome was initially described by Achille-Louis-François Foville, a French physician, in 1859.^[2]

References

^ 1134166052 at GPnotebook
^ Foville, ALF (1859). "Note sur une paralysie peu connue de certains muscles de l’oeil, et sa liaison avec quelques points de l’anatomie de la physiologie de la protubérance annulaire". Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie 6: 146.

CNS disease, Vascular disease: Cerebrovascular diseases (G45-G46 and I60-I69, 430-438)

Brain ischemia/
cerebral infarction
(ischemic stroke/TIA)

TACI, PACI	precerebral: Carotid artery stenosis cerebral: MCA · ACA · Amaurosis fugax Moyamoya disease

POCI	precerebral: Anterior spinal artery syndrome · Vertebrobasilar insufficiency (Subclavian steal syndrome) brainstem: medulla (Medial medullary syndrome, Lateral medullary syndrome) · pons (Medial pontine syndrome/Foville's, Lateral pontine syndrome/Millard-Gubler) · midbrain (Weber's, Benedikt syndrome) cerebral: PCA · Lacunar stroke · Thalamic syndrome cerebellar

General	cerebral: Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis · CADASIL · Binswanger's disease · Transient global amnesia

Intracranial hemorrhage
(hemorrhagic stroke)

Extra-axial	Epidural · Subdural · Subarachnoid

Cerebral/Intra-axial	Intraventricular

Brainstem	Duret haemorrhage

Aneurysm

Cerebral aneurysm (Intracranial berry aneurysm, Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm)

Other/general

Cerebral vasculitis

central nervous system navs: anat/physio/dev, noncongen/congen/neoplasia, symptoms+signs/eponymous, proc
vascular navs: anat/physio/dev, noncongen/systemic vasculitis/congen/neoplasia, symptoms+signs/eponymous, proc

Lesions of spinal cord and brain

Spinal cord/
vascular myelopathy

sensory: Sensory ataxia · Tabes dorsalis

motor: Motor neurone disease

mixed: Brown-Séquard syndrome · cord syndrome (Posterior, Anterior, Central/Syringomyelia) · Subacute combined degeneration of spinal cord (B12) · Cauda equina syndrome

Anterior spinal artery syndrome

Brainstem

Medulla (CN 8, 9, 10, 12)	Lateral medullary syndrome/Wallenberg (PICA) · Medial medullary syndrome/Dejerine (ASA)

Pons (CN 5, 6, 7, 8)	Lateral pontine syndrome (AICA)/Millard-Gubler syndrome (lateral) · Medial pontine syndrome (basilar)/Foville's syndrome (dorsal, basilar) · Locked-in syndrome (ventral) · Internuclear ophthalmoplegia · One and a half syndrome

Midbrain (CN 3, 4)	Weber's syndrome (ventral peduncle, PCA) · Benedikt syndrome (ventral tegmentum, PCA) · Parinaud's syndrome (dorsal, tumor) · Nothnagel's syndrome

Other	Alternating hemiplegia