Lower cranial nerve palsy, also known as Collet-Sicard syndrome, is a fairly rare pathology characterized by unilateral palsy of the IX-X-XI-XII cranial nerves. We report a multiple cranial nerve palsy developing after a head trauma that might have been considered negligible. A 16-year-old boy was admitted with swallowing and articulation problems and difficulty lifting one shoulder after a hea...

Dengue fever is a common mosquito-borne viral infection endemic in tropical and subtropical countries. Neurological manifestations in dengue infection are relatively uncommon, and include encephalitis, encephalopathy, neuromuscular disorders and neuro-ocular disorders. Cranial mononeuropathy is a rare manifestation of dengue infection. A 40-year-old man was diagnosed with isolated, unilateral s...

Purpose. To report the ocular findings in patients with hematopoietic malignancy with optic nerve involvement and abducens nerve palsy. Methods. The medical records of all cases of hematopoietic cancer with ophthalmic involvements seen in the Department of Ophthalmology of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine between 2009 and 2014 were reviewed. Results. Eight patients with hemato...

background: vestibular schwannoma (vs) is one of the skull base tumors originating from vestibular portion of eighth cranial nerve. recently, 2μ- thulium laser is used in the surgery of some intracranial tumors. objectives: assessing the efficacy of 2μ-thulium flexible hand-held laser fiber (revolixjrò) in microsurgical removal of vs. materials and methods: this retrospective non-randomized stu...

Isolated fourth nerve palsy is usually benign. The most common etiologies are congenital, traumatic, ischemic, and idiopathic causes. Extensive evaluations for isolated fourth nerve palsies are generally not indicated, but more intensive evaluation for underlying etiology may be necessary for nonisolated or bilateral fourth nerve palsies. Evaluation of ocular torsion enables differentiation of ...

Ten cases of primary oculomotor nerve palsy due to head injury are presented. All ten patients had a dilated, non reactive pupil. Seven had complete oculomotor palsy. Two had partial extraocular palsy or blepharoptosis and one had neither extraocular palsy nor blepharoptosis. The initial ophthalmoplegia was recognized immediately after trauma. Nine patients had severely impaired consciousness o...

Case presentation: A previously healthy 12 year-old male presented to our tertiary emergency care with classic meningoencephalitis symptoms and paraparesis, urinary retention, facial nerve palsy, lagophtalmos, abducens oculomotor palsy hypoesthesia secondary sinusitis complications. These were intracranial lesions, multiple ischemic subcortical areas myelitis. The diagnosis was made through cli...

Onodi cell sinusitis is a rare cause of isolated oculomotor nerve palsy. The sphenoid sinus and mucocele or invasive fungal are often associated with multiple cranialnerve symptoms simultaneously. However, cranial palsy due to simple rare. Sinus disease difficult diagnose based on patient history physical examination alone; CT MRI help in correctly assessing these lesions. Here we report case o...

1348 CMAJ, September 6, 2011, 183(12) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Isolated radial nerve palsy in the newborn is uncommon. However, pediatricians and primary care physicians need to be aware that it has a good prognosis, particularly if the history and clinical examination suggest a palsy related to intrauterine pressure. In this issue of CMAJ, Alsubhi and colleagues des...

We describe a case of acute oculomotor nerve palsy caused by a ruptured middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysm. A 59-year-old female presenting with headache and nausea was admitted to our hospital. Her consciousness was alert, and had no other neurological deficit without left oculomotor nerve palsy. A computed tomography (CT) showed SAH extending from left sylvian cistern to basal cistern. CT ...