Pure motor stroke as the most frequent lacunar syndrome: A clinical update

Table 4 Pure motor stroke not due to lacunar infarcts

Non-lacunar ischemic stroke1

Cardioembolic stroke

Atherothrombotic infarct

Internal carotid artery occlusion in the neck

Ventromedial pontine infarction due to a propagating thrombosis of the basilar branch

Complex aortic atheroma plaques

Ischemic stroke of unusual etiology

Ischemia-edema after craniotomy for postoperative bleeding

Intracerebral hemorrhage

Subdural hematoma

Brain abscess of the motor cortex

Cerebral metastasis

Demyelinating disease

¹Cerebral cortical surface infarction or large deep infarction (> 20 mm diameter).