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- Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) can sometimes be associated with focal symptoms related to mass lesions or herniation syndromes.
- Herniation is the result of pressure gradients between two regions of the cranial vault, such as that related to cerebral edema from an acute stroke.
- The following list describes areas most commonly affected by herniation syndromes:
--- subfalcine
--- central transtentorial
--- uncal transtentorial
--- upward cerebellar
--- cerebellar tonsillar/foramen magnum
--- transcalvarial