Paralysis of Right Third Nerve following Ethmoidal Operation.

Ethmoidal Mucocele Presenting as Oculomotor Nerve Paralysis

A 56-year-old male was admitted with an acute headache and sudden ptosis on the right side. No ophthalmological or neurological etiologies were apparent. A mucocele of the right posterior ethmoid sinus was observed with radiology. After the marsupialization of the mucocele via a transnasal endoscopic approach, the patient's symptoms (oculomotor nerve paralysis and headache) resolved in 4 weeks....

Sciatic nerve paralysis following anticoagulant therapy.

A woman aged sixty-seven was admitted to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in November 1970 with severe mitral incompetence following a myocardial infarction in March 1970. In January 1971 she underwent mitral valve replacement (Starr-Edwards) and as a routine post-operative measure she was given Warfarin. Her progress was uneventful for the first fourteen days after operation and the anticoagulation a...

Case of Peripheral Paralysis of the Third Nerve

Unilateral Recurrent Laryngeal and Hypoglossal Nerve Paralysis Following Rhinoplasty: A Case Report and review of Articles

Introduction: Injury to cranial nerves IX, X, and XII is a known complication of laryngoscopy and intubation. Here we present a patient with concurrent hypoglossal and recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis after rhinoplasty. Case Report: The patient was a 27-year-old woman who was candidate for rhinoplastic surgery. The next morning after the operation, the patient complained of dysphonia and a s...

Cranial nerve paralysis following carotid endarterectomy.

During the past seven years 347 patients have been entered into a data bank at the Duke University Medical Center for evaluation of transient neurologic ischemia. One hundred fifty eight of these patients had carotid endarterectomies of whom 24 (15.1%) developed 26 (16.4%) peripheral cranial nerve palsies. Injury to the peripheral portion of the hypoglossal nerve was noted in 13 patients, to th...