mayo.edu The objective was to report the first pathologically confirmed case of partly functionally preserved medulla oblongata in a patient with catastrophic traumatic brain injury. A patient is ...

Cerebellum Controls balance, co-ordination of movement and muscular activity. Medulla oblongata Controls unconscious activities such as heart rate and breathing rate. Hypothalamus Regulates ...

MRI head demonstrated an avidly enhancing mass lesion in the foramen of Magendie, posterior to the medulla oblongata and measuring 13×13×10 mm (figure 1). There was no other abnormal enhancement, ...

MRI of the medulla was performed with T1 and T2 weighted sequences because of the possibility of cervical compression myelopathy. This MRI showed no medullary abnormalities except for a narrow spinal ...

Supra- or infra-nuclear injury to the hypoglossal or glossopharyngeal nucleus, which result in upper motor neuron disease (lesions upstream of the medulla oblongata that can impact somatomotor, and ...