Table 1.

The Clinical Features of Pontine and Cerebral Infarction with PMH or Hemiplegia

	Patients with pontine infarctions (n = 12)	Patients with internal capsule-coronal radiate region infarctions (n = 38)	P value
Age (y, mean ± SD)	67.2 ± 8.3	68.1 ± 11.7	0.806
Female, n (%)	5 (41.7%)	16 (42.1%)	0.979
Hypertension, n (%)	8 (66.7%)	16 (42.1%)	0.138
Diabetes mellitus, n (%)	6 (50.0%)	2 (5.3%)	0.001
Coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, n (%)	1(8.3%)	2 (5.3%)	1.000
Nonvertiginous dizziness at onset, n (%)	7(58.3%)	8(21.1%)	0.036
Status at onset in quiet, n (%)	7(58.3%)	20(52.6%)	0.730
Progressing course of stroke, n (%)	4(33.3%)	1(2.6%)	0.011
Contralateral central facial palsy, n (%)	12(100.0%)	30(79.0%)	0.173
Contralateral central glossal palsy, n (%)	9(75.0%)	22(57.9%)	0.470
PMH, n (%)	7(58.3%)	14(36.8%)	0.188
Hemiplegia, n (%)	5(41.7%)	24(63.2%)	0.188
with contralateral Sensory dysfunction, n (%)	3(25.0%)	19(50.0%)	0.128
NIHSS on admission	6 (5, 12)	5(2, 11)	0.077

PMH, pure motor hemiparesis; NIHSS, the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.