Cranial Arteritis With Liver Involvement • An elderly man with cranial nerve palsies was found to have cranial arteritis. Laboratory studies established concurrent liver disease which improved with treatment. The liver and brain stem pathology is discussed. ADDITIONAL

Clinical presentation of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is varied and often mimics many neurological disorders, making it a diagnostic challenge, and cranial nerve palsy in CVST is rare and its pathophysiology remains unclear. We report a case of a 19-year-old male with a history of whiplash injury, admitted with extensive CVST, developed right facial nerve palsy with extension of thro...

Vascular compression is a known cause of cranial nerve dysfunction in a variety of disease states including trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, and hypoglossal neuralgia.(1,2.)

It has been known for over a century that these cranial nerves exist, and that they are not typographical errors nor a sensational event reported in the medical literature. A number of scientific articles on anatomy highlight how textbooks on descriptive anatomy do not always consider variables such as differences related to the geographical areas where people live, and these differences do exi...

Introduction: Metastatic tumors of the temporal bone are extremely rare. Collet-Sicard syndrome is an uncommon condition characterized by unilateral palsy of the lower four cranial nerves. The clinical features of temporal bone metastasis are nonspecific and mimic infections such as chronic otitis media and mastoiditis.   Case Report: This report describes a rare case of metastatic adenocarcino...

We present a case of lingual nerve injury that was associated with use of the ProSeal laryngeal mask airway during shoulder replacement in a 61-yr-old male. We also review other cases of cranial nerve injury, most of which were associated with use of the classic laryngeal mask airway. In principle, the frequency of cranial nerve injuries can be reduced by avoiding insertion trauma, using approp...

Head injury is a common occurrence in motor vehicle accidents. There are numerous causes for cranial nerve injury that include head trauma or other lesions. Few studies regarding cranial nerve injury following mild head trauma (GCS: 14 - 15) exist in the literature. The oculomotor nerve is a somatic and visceral motor nerve. When it is completely injured the result is ptosis, pupils that are no...

In a mental rotation study, if the degree of the rotation angle of a visual stimulus becomes large, the response time for congruence judgment increases. Simultaneously, the cranial nerve becomes active. However, the relevance of the reaction response time to the same mental rotation angle degree conditions (e.g., the angle difference is 180o), and cranial nerve activity is unclear. Therefore, t...