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Posterior cerebral artery syndrome
Classification and external resources
Outer surface of cerebral hemisphere, showing areas supplied by cerebral arteries. (Yellow is region supplied by posterior cerebral artery.)
ICD-10	G 46.2
eMedicine	neuro/322
MeSH	D020762

Posterior cerebral artery syndrome is a condition where the blood supply from the posterior cerebral artery is restricted, leading to a reduction of the function of the portions of the brain supplied by that vessel.

Because this artery supplies the occipital lobe, this condition can be associated with visual defects.

External links

-946208756 at GPnotebook

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