Acute foot drop syndrome mimicking peroneal nerve injury: an atypical presentation of ischemic stroke

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Marcelo Marinho de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Ricarte, Irapuá Ferreira, Fukuda, Thiago Gonçalves, Pedroso, José Luiz, Silva, Gisele Sampaio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/54311; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2013.07.009
• topic: ischemic stroke; foot drop

Foot drop syndrome is a frequent neurologic condition usually caused by peroneal nerve damage. On rare occasions, foot drop may present as the single neurologic manifestation of intracranial lesions. We presented a 43-year-old man admitted to our hospital with acute weakness in the dorsiflexion of his right foot that appeared 3 days before admission. Brain magnetic resonance imaging diffusion-weighted sequence revealed a small area of restricted diffusion in the left frontal cortex. Three months later, his motor deficit had completely improved (modified Rankin scale score 5 0). To our knowledge, this is the second report of sudden isolated foot drop caused by a cortical infarction.