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The anatomy of the brain stem is very complicated but the structures that cause most of the complexity — the extrapyramidal, cerebellar and vestibular pathways — produce clinical signs of relatively limited localizing value. The functional importance of these pathways is undeniable and and they are detailed in other chapters, but for localizing brainstem lesions they are of limited help.
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Patten, J.P. (1996). The Brain Stem. In: Neurological Differential Diagnosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58981-2_11
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