Sympathetic Paralysis

”Paratrigeminal” paralysis of the oculopupillary sympathetic system

Raeder described five patients with mixed features of trigeminal nerve pathology and oculosympathetic impairment, with or without other cranial nerve lesions. This constellation of clinical features drew the original author’s attention to the paratrigeminal region as a likely site for the causative lesion in this syndrome. An analysis of the anatomy of the oculosympathetic innervation supports ...

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

Sympathetic Skin Response in patients with major depressive disorders

Introduction: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent diseases of psychiatry. There is evidence that suggests the autonomic nervous system plays a role in depression. Sympathetic Skin Response (SSR) is used to evaluate the autonomic system. Nerve Conduction Study (NCS) evaluates peripheral thick myelinated fibers. In SSR we evaluate thin unmyelinated fibers. The purpose of ...

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...