• Irapuá Ferreira Ricarte, Marcelo Marinho de Figueiredo, Thiago Gonçalves Fukuda, José Luiz Pedroso, and Gisele Sampaio Silva.
• Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: irapuaferreir@hotmail.com.
• J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2014 May 1;23(5):1229-31.

AbstractFoot drop syndrome is a frequent neurologic condition usually caused by peroneal nerve damage. On rare occasions, foot drop may present as the single neurologic manifestation of intracranial lesions. We presented a 43-year-old man admitted to our hospital with acute weakness in the dorsiflexion of his right foot that appeared 3 days before admission. Brain magnetic resonance imaging diffusion-weighted sequence revealed a small area of restricted diffusion in the left frontal cortex. Three months later, his motor deficit had completely improved (modified Rankin scale score = 0). To our knowledge, this is the second report of sudden isolated foot drop caused by a cortical infarction.Copyright © 2014 National Stroke Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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