Medial cerebellar stroke presenting as a pure labyrinthine syndrome

Objective: Cerebellar stroke may mimick vestibular neuritis, a benign and usually self-limited neurologic disorder. On the basis of the clinical findings it is not always possible to differentiate between those two entities. However, the differential diagnosis is important because treatment and surveillance of patients are different, and misjudging cerebellar infarction may be fatal as it may lead to swelling and brainstem compression. Recent studies and case reports on cerebellar ischaemia have shown that cerebellar infarction presenting as a pure labyrinthine syndrome, so-called pseudo-vestibular neuritis, is…