Traumatic isolated cranial nerve palsies are uncommon and when they do occur, they are usually associated with severe head trauma. Cranial nerve palsy associated with mild head injury is rare. A case is reported of complete left third nerve palsy associated with mild head injury. The rate of recovery for complete third nerve palsy is slow and prolonged. The ptosis recovered in 10 months; the di...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical and MR findings of metastatic lesions involving the cerebellopontine angle (CPA), which may be useful in differentiating them from the more commonly occurring benign CPA lesions. METHODS Clinical and MR findings of 14 patients with clinical/radiologic (seven) or pathologic (seven) diagnoses of CPA metastasis were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS Useful clin...

PURPOSE To study the neuroanatomic characteristics of patients with Duane's retraction syndrome with high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging. METHODS The study included 11 consecutive cases, including five patients with type I, one patient with type II, four patients with type III, and one patient with inverse Duane's retraction syndrome. The patients underwent magnetic resonance imaging o...

Case presentation: Male patient, 1 year-old, born and resident in Maranhão. Mother reported reduced fetal movement, after birth some dysmorphisms were identified such as deformity the lower limbs, characterized by arthrogryposis, bilateral congenital clubfoot, dislocation of hip fracture right femur perceived on fifth day life. During development, generalized hypotonia significant motor delay n...

Risk factors for herpes zoster (HZ) are poorly defined. An age-matched, case-control study was conducted to assess the effect of physical trauma on HZ, using Medicare data. HZ cases were 3.4 times as likely as controls to have experienced trauma in the week before HZ onset, but the magnitude of the association between trauma and HZ declined over time. Cases who had cranial HZ were >25 times as ...

A knowledge of neurovascular relations and anomalies at the base of the brain is of importance both for an understanding of certain obscure cranial nerve palsies accompanying diseased vascular states or expanding intracranial lesions, and for an appreciation of cranial nerve topography for the purposes of intracranial surgery. The object of this paper is to direct attention to some normal anato...

A 38 year old woman who had undergone irradiation during infancy for a left facial cutaneous arteriovenous malformation sequentially developed complete palsies of the ipsilateral VII, V, XI, IX, X, XII and VI cranial nerves. Apart from optic and olfactory nerve damage there are few reports of radiotherapy causing cranial nerve injury. We link the unusually extensive and progressive neural damag...

BACKGROUND Leprosy is one of the most common causes of peripheral neuropathy, perhaps closely matched by diabetic neuropathy. Patterns of peripheral neuropathy in leprosy can be varied, which may include mononeuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex and symmetric polyneuropathy. Cranial nerves, especially facial and trigeminal nerves, are also commonly involved in leprosy. AIMS To find out the patte...

Asymmetrical, simultaneous multiple cranial nerve palsies and mild signs of peripheral neuropathy in diabetic patients may cause difficulties in diagnosis as they are relatively rare. A case of a 55-year-old diabetic woman who developed simultaneous right VII and left III, IV, VI cranial nerve palsies with spared pupils is presented here. We also discuss the role of intravenous immunoglobulin (...