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Cerebellar Syndrome

  • Author: Dr. Hasan Altarrah
  • Published Date: 10/05/2026
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  • Category :Internal Medicine
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Description

Area to Examine
  • Upper limbs
  • Lower limbs
  • Eyes
  • Gait
Signs
  • Hypotonia
  • Hyporeflexia
  • Nystagmus
  • Intention tremor
  • Dysdiadochokinesis
  • Ataxia
  • Scanning dysarthria
  • Finger–nose incoordination
  • Impaired heel–shin test
  • Wide based gait
Where is the Lesion?
  • Cerebellar lobe lesions produce ipsilateral cerebellar signs in the limbs
  • Direction of nystagmus is a clue to the site of the lesion
Causes
  • Paraneoplastic
  • Alcohol
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Tumors
  • Phenytoin
  • Stroke (brain stem vascular event)
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Friedreich’s ataxia & Ataxia telangiectasia

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