SUMMARY Denervation changes in muscle following damage to cranial and peripheral nerves can be observed on both CT and MR imaging studies. These findings are well described for cranial nerves (CN) V, X, XI, and XII. The CT findings of denervation atrophy due to CN VII dysfunction have been reported. We describe the MR imaging findings in two patients with perineural spread of tumor along CN VII...

We report a 38 year old male patient who underwent a craniotomy for jugular foramen tumor resection. In the postoperative care unit, the patient developed aspiration accompanied with oxyhemoglobin desaturation. Subsequently, he had several episodes of recurrent aspiration which were attributed to cranial nerves (IX, X) palsy as a complication of the surgery at the jugular foramen. It is suggest...

Multiple cranial nerve involvement with idiopathic intracranial hypertension Miguel Gonz alez-Andrades, José Luis Garcı́a-Serrano, Marı́a del Carmen Gonz alez Gallardo and Colm Mcalinden From the Ophthalmology Service, San Cecilio University Hospital, Granada 18012, Spain, ABM University Health Borard, Swansea, UK, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia and From the Wenzhou Medical Col...

This report of 14 Thai patients describes the clinical features of a symptom-complex we have termed recurrent multiple cranial nerve palsies. While the disorder is common in South Eastern Asia, patients suffering similar symptoms have been seen in Europe and America. Characteristically, a long prodromal headache precedes the abrupt onset of multiple cranial nerve palsies affecting predominantly...

Sclerosteosis is an unusual disorder in which increased skeletal density is associated with abnormalities of bony modelling. The condition is progressive and complications arise due to cranial nerve involvement. Death from raised intracranial pressure occurs in early adulthood. In order to define the range and extent of the bony abnormalities, the radiographic features of 18 affected individual...

OBJECTIVE In the recent prospective randomised trials on carotid endarterectomy (CEA), the incidence of cranial nerve injuries (CNI) are reported to be higher than in previously published studies. The objective of this study is to review the incidence of post CEA cranial nerve injury and to discover whether it has changed in the last 25 years after many innovations in vascular surgery. METHOD...

The high-field, thin-section (3-5 mm) MR imaging characteristics of 49 cerebellopontine angle and internal auditory canal lesions were reviewed. The diverse abnormalities include 20 acoustic neurinomas, eight neurinomas of other cranial nerves (six involving the fifth cranial nerve and two involving cranial nerves IX-XI), seven meningiomas, five subdural fluid collections, four brainstem tumors...