Medial medullary infarction: clinical, radiological findings and long-term prognosis

Medial medullary infarction (MMI) is a rare type of posterior circulation stroke. We aim to examine the clinical and radiological features, etiology, and prognosis of patients with MMI. MMI patients registered consecutively in the stroke databank of the Istanbul Medical Faculty between January 1999 and April 2022 were included in the study. Medullary lesions were rostrocaudally classified as rostral, middle, and caudal, and ventrodorsally as ventral, middle, and dorsal. The etiological classification was performed, and functional outcome was assessed based on the modified Rankin Scale (mRS). Overall survival was estimated using the Kaplan–Meier technique. We examined 48 cases of MMI including 9 with bilateral MMI. There were 34 men (70