This is the case of a 75-year-old man treated with scheduled surgical clipping of a giant aneurysm at left internal carotid artery level. After surgery, a cranial CT scan performed revealed the presence of an image consistent with acute ischemia in the left frontal region. Twenty-four hours later, right side mydriasis was reported. This new finding prompted a new cranial CT scan that revealed the progression of ischemic phenomena with damage to the left middle and posterior cerebral artery territories (Fig. 1) with signs of intracranial hypertension and compression at brainstem level against the contralateral tentorium (Fig. 2), which would explain the midriasis of the right side. This is know as the Kernohan-Woltman notch phenomenon. Despite medical treatment, the option of decompressive craniectomy was ruled out, and the patient progressed to brain death.
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Vol. 47. Issue 10.
Pages 619 (October 2023)
Vol. 47. Issue 10.
Pages 619 (October 2023)
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Kernohan’s phenomenon. The great forgotten
Fenómeno de Kernohan. El gran olvidado
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María Dolores Páez Sánchez
, Pedro Fernández Florido, Alberto Iglesias Santiago
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Servicio de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
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