Unilateral hypoglossal nerve palsy due to aneurysm of the stump of persistent hypoglossal artery
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Unilateral hypoglossal nerve palsy due to aneurysm of the stump of persistent hypoglossal artery.
A 47 year old woman presented two weeks before admission with a severe right sided headache followed by pain in her right ear and right scalp which was tender to touch, and mild dysphagia. On examination she had a right hypoglossal nerve palsy (figure A), the remainder of the neurological and general examination was normal. Brain CT (figure B) showed a soft tissue density mass lying medial to t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.64.3.405