A 48-year-old man with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hypothyroidism presented to an outside institution progressive bilateral lower extremity numbness weakness. Nerve conduction studies (NCS) suggested acquired demyelinating polyneuropathy. Right sural nerve biopsy revealed mild chronic neuropathy, axonal degeneration, demyelination, remyelination. He received monthly IV immunoglobulin (IVI...

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...

SECTION 1 A 19-year-old man with no significant medical history noted 3 weeks of right facial numbness and slurred speech. On examination, he had decreased sensation in the rightmiddle and lower trigeminal nerve distributions, right tongue deviation, and bilateral facial weakness. A lumbar puncture yielded CSF with a lymphocytic predominant pleocytosis (50 leukocytes/mm, 95% lymphocytes), eleva...