Transient or permanent recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy is a well known complication in thyroid surgery with reported incidences of 5-8% and 1-3%, respectively (1). Diplegia has an incidence of 0.4% (2). Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an important cause of peripheral neurosensitivity, particularly autonomic neuropathy, which can lead to transient or permanent laryngeal nerve palsy when neur...

BACKGROUND Retained oesophageal foreign bodies must be urgently removed to prevent potentially serious complications. Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy is rare and has not been reported in association with a foreign body in the thoracic oesophagus. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a dental plate in the thoracic oesophagus that caused high dysphagia. Delayed diagnosis led to a recurrent la...

Five adults with acute extraocular muscle palsies followed by limited recovery of muscle function were treated with injections of botulinum toxin A to the ipsilateral antagonist of the affected muscle. Three were cases of unilateral sixth nerve palsy, one of bilateral sixth nerve palsy, and one of third nerve palsy. After a period of paralysis, during which the strabismus was overcorrected, the...

Unilateral oculomotor nerve palsy can result from various neurological disorders. We herein report the case of a 68-year-old man with complete unilateral oculomotor nerve palsy following campylobacter infection. Based on the antecedent infection and the patient's decreased tendon reflexes, incomplete Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) without ataxia was suspected. His serum tested positive for anti-G...

CLINICAL PEARLS Lesions of the fourth (trochlear) cranial nerve cause vertical or oblique diplopia by impairing the ability of the superior oblique muscle to intort and depress the eye. This binocular diplopia worsens in downgaze and lateral gaze away from the affected eye. Because intorsion is necessary to maintain fusion in ocular counter-roll, this diplopia also worsens with head tilt toward...

introduction: we present a retrospective two-center study series and discussion of the current literature to assess the benefits of facial nerve monitoring during parotidectomy. materials and methods: from 2007 to 2012, 128 parotidectomies were performed in 125 patients. of these, 47 procedures were performed without facial nerve monitoring (group 1) and 81 with facial nerve monitoring (group 2...

Phrenic nerve palsy can occur in the context of neonatal brachial plexus palsy, yet neither outcomes nor definitive treatment guidelines have been established. Diaphragmatic paralysis alone in the newborn results in significant respiratory sequelae and failure to thrive. Reviewing the available literature revealed little information about the incidence of phrenic nerve palsy associated with neo...

A 28-year-old male patient was referred to the Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital for evaluation and treatment of a neuropathic type pain he had developed in his right arm. Some twenty years previously, he had sustained a Gartland type III supracondylar humeral fracture with what was thought clinically to be an anterior interosseous nerve palsy. The fracture...

Thyroid lesion is strongly associated with recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy. It is because of the close anatomical relationship between the gland on the trachea and the nerve which lies in the tracheoesophageal groove. The recurrent laryngeal nerve can be affected either from the thyroid disease itself or as the complication of thyroidectomy. However, benign thyroid lesion rarely causes recurren...

how to cite this article: toopchizadeh v, barzegar m, habibzadeh a. sciatic nerve injection palsy in children, electrophysiologic pattern and outcome: a case series study. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):69-72. abstract sciatic nerve injury is one of the frequent mononeuropathies in children that occurs due to different causes such as nerve compression, trauma and stretch during surgery. ...