Fig. 3From: Crossed brainstem syndrome revealing bleeding brainstem cavernous malformation: an illustrative casePostoperative MRI of the brain in post-contrast T1-weighted sequence. We performed (d) a suboccipital telovelar approach to gain access to the rhomboid fossa. Then we used (c) the infrafacial triangle as an entry point to the pons to perform microsurgical excision of (a) the BCM and (b,c) the pontine hematoma. a,b,c,d The DVA was left intactBack to article page