Lateral branch of left pontine artery

Looks like

Pontine branches that run around the side of the pons before entering it.

What it does

Supply the outer pons, including sensory tracts and some cranial nerve centres.

Keeping it well

Blockage causes small strokes with numbness, clumsiness or facial symptoms.

Related conditions

• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Hypothermia & frostbite
• Kawasaki disease
• Metabolic syndrome
• Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
• Peripheral artery disease
• Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
• Pre-eclampsia
• Raynaud's phenomenon
• Sepsis
• Shock (circulatory failure)
• Vasculitis (GCA & others)