BACKGROUND Ecchordosis physaliphora (EP) is a benign notochordal remnant that is usually asymptomatic; symptomatic cases are extremely rare. Most of the reported symptomatic cases were managed by resection via craniotomy. CASE DESCRIPTION We report a case of a 20-year-old male presenting with abducens nerve palsy. Magnetic resonance imaging performed on admission demonstrated a mass in the re...

A five year old female had an isolated abducens nerve palsy following closed head injury. There was no associated skull fracture, haematoma, or other cranial nerve injury. The significance, frequency, and differential diagnosis of traumatic sixth cranial nerve injury is discussed, particularly in paediatric patients. Management is symptomatic; occlusion with an eye pad may be used if diplopia i...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Gradenigo's syndrome is a rare disease, which is characterized by the triad of the following conditions: suppurative otitis media, pain in the distribution of the first and the second division of trigeminal nerve, and abducens nerve palsy. The full triad may often not be present, but can develop if the condition is not treated correctly. CASE PRESENTATION We report a ...

BACKGROUND Dengue fever is an endemic illness in the tropics with early and post infectious complications affecting multiple systems. Though neurological sequelae including mononeuropathy, encephalopathy, transverse myelitis, polyradiculopathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome , optic neuropathy and oculomotor neuropathy have been reported in medical literature, the abducens nerve despite its notoriety ...

ADACHI, K. and HAYASHI, M. An 18pSyndrome due to 15/18 Translocation with Facial Palsy and Deafness. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1981, 133 (3), 307-311 A case of translocation between chromosomes No. 15 and 18 was described. Phenotype of the patient was almost consistent with that of the 18psyndrome. In addition to the typical feature of 18psyndrome, he had perceptive deafness, and abducens nerve and ...

An isolated ocular motor nerve palsy is defined as dysfunction of a single ocular motor nerve (oculomotor, trochlear, or abducens) with no associated or localizing neurologic signs or symptoms. When occurring in patients aged 50 or older, the most common cause is microvascular ischemia, but serious etiologies such as aneurysm, malignancy, and giant cell arteritis should always be considered. In...

BACKGROUND Thoracic disc surgeries make up only a small number of all spine surgeries performed, but they can have a considerable number of postoperative complications. Numerous approaches have been developed and studied in an attempt to reduce the morbidity associated with the procedure; however, we still encounter cases that develop serious and unexpected outcomes. CASE PRESENTATION This ca...

Cranial nerve palsy could be one of the presenting features of underlying benign or malignant tumors of the head and neck. The tumor can involve the cranial nerves by local compression, direct infiltration or by paraneoplastic process. Cranial nerve involvement depends on the anatomical course of the cranial nerve and the site of the tumor. Patients may present with single or multiple cranial n...

Gradenigo syndrome (GS) was described primarily in the paediatric population, especially pre-antibiotic era. GS is rarely reported elderly post-antibiotic We present rare case of a 67-year-old man who presented with an incomplete triad symptoms (without abducens nerve palsy) that failed medical therapy and successfully treated surgical intervention (mastoidectomy petrous apicectomy). Physicians...