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Central paroxysmal positional nystagmus mimicking posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in pontine infarction: a case report and literature review

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Funding

This research was supported by Chungnam National University Hospital Research Fund (2021-CF-009).

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  1. Department of Neurology, Chungnam National University Hospital, 282 Munwha-Ro, Joong-Gu, Daejeon, 35015, Korea

    Eunjin Kwon, Hye Seon Jeong & Seong-Hae Jeong

  2. Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea

    Seong-Hae Jeong

  3. Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

    Hyo-Jung Kim

  4. Department of Neurology, Dizziness Center, and Clinical Neuroscience Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

    Ji-Soo Kim

  5. Department of Neurology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

    Ji-Soo Kim

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Contributions

Dr. EK analyzed and interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript. Dr. HSJ analyzed and interpreted the data. Dr. HJK analyzed and visualized the data. Dr. JSK interpreted the data and critically revised the manuscript. Dr. SHJ supervised the study and revised the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Seong-Hae Jeong.

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Conflicts of interest

Dr. Ji-Soo Kim serves as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Neuro-otology and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Neurology, Frontiers in Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Vestibular Research, Medicine, and Clinical and Translational Neuroscience. The other author has nothing to disclose.

Ethical standard

This study followed the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and was performed according to the guidelines of the Institutional Review Board of Chungnam National University Hospital (2023-09-025).

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Video-oculography shows paroxysmal clockwise (from the patient’s view) torsional and upbeat nystagmus with a latency of several seconds during the right Dix-Hallpike maneuver. The patient raises his hand when he feels dizzy, which is only in the right Dix-Hallpike position (MP4 15210 KB)

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Kwon, E., Jeong, H.S., Jeong, SH. et al. Central paroxysmal positional nystagmus mimicking posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in pontine infarction: a case report and literature review. J Neurol 271, 3672–3677 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-024-12346-9

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