BACKGROUND Radiation therapy is often used in the treatment of pituitary tumor. Diplopia due to radiation damage to the ocular motor cranial nerves has been infrequently reported as a complication in this clinical setting. METHODS Retrospective case series of 6 patients (3 men and 3 women) with pituitary adenoma, all of whom developed diplopia following transsphenoidal resection of pituitary ...

Cranial nerve (CN) lesions are observed due to congenital, infectious, neoplastic formations, migraine and head trauma. Along with the patient's age, clinical findings neuroradiological imaging studies guide diagnosis. A 57-year-old female patient was brought emergency room (ER) by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) a motor vehicle accident. No medical history. She conscious, cooperative orientat...

OBJECTIVE To determine feasibility of ultrasonography in detecting the normal accessory nerve as well as pathologic changes in cases of accessory nerve palsy. METHODS Four patients with accessory nerve palsy were investigated by ultrasonography. Three cases of accessory nerve palsy after lymph node biopsy and neck dissection were primarily diagnosed on the basis of ultrasonography using a 5- ...

This issue of the Journal of Ophthalmic and Vision Research contains two reports summarizing the 10 year surgical treatment experience of trochlear and abducens nerve palsies at Labbafinejad Medical Center, a large tertiary referral practice in Tehran, Iran. 1,2 Generally, the authors achieved an excellent overall success rate in terms of alignment in primary position, with the majority of pati...