Posterior Cerebral Artery - Occlusion

Occlusion

• Contralateral loss of pain and temperature sensations.
• Visual field defects (contralateral hemianopia with macular sparing).
• Prosopagnosia with bilateral obstruction of the lingual and fusiform gyri.
• Superior Alternating Syndrome (Weber's syndrome)
• Contralateral deficits of facial nerve (only lower face, upper face receives bilateral input), vagus nerve and hypoglossal nerve
• Ipsilateral deficit of oculomotor nerve
• Horner's Syndrome

Signs and symptoms:Structures involved