Nocturnal paralysis.

Chronic respiratory failure due to bilateral vocal cord paralysis managed with nocturnal nasal positive pressure ventilation.

A patient with bilateral vocal cord paralysis developed chronic respiratory failure. Treatment with nocturnal inspiratory positive airway pressure via nasal mask improved symptoms and reduced hypercapnia.

Complex nocturnal behaviors: nocturnal seizures and parasomnias.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article summarizes the clinical and electrophysiologic manifestations of nocturnal seizures, particularly nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE), parasomnias, and other disorders presenting with complex behaviors in sleep. The evaluation and treatment of patients with complex nocturnal behaviors can be challenging. While the differential diagnosis of sleep-related movemen...

Tourniquet paralysis.

CLINICAL MATERIAL OF necessity, a very large sample of procedures needs to be gathered to give a significant amount of information, as complications from the use of tourniquets are rare. Because of their rarity and the concern of the surgeon on these occasions, it was thought that questionnaire information was likely to be quite accurate. One hundred and fifty-one members of the Australian Orth...

Infantile Paralysis

Bulbar Paralysis and Facial Paralysis due to Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Skull-base metastasis (SBM) from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is extremely rare, and multiple cranial nerve paralysis due to SBM from HCC is also rare. We report a case of bulbar and facial paralysis due to SBM from HCC. A 46-year-old Chinese man presented with a hepatic right lobe lesion that was detected during a routine physical examination. After several failed attempts to treat the prima...