Teaching NeuroImages: Cranial neuropathies following clival infarction
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Multiple cranial neuropathies.
Patients presenting with multiple cranial neuropathies are not uncommon in neurologic clinical practice. The evaluation of these patients can often be overwhelming due to the vast and complicated etiologies as well as the potential for devastating neurologic outcomes. Dysfunction of the cranial nerves can occur anywhere in their course from intrinsic brainstem dysfunction to their peripheral co...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000008070