Third nerve palsy and internal carotid aneurysm
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[Painful incomplete third-nerve palsy caused by an internal carotid-communicating posterior artery aneurysm].
CLINICAL CASE A 38-year-old woman presented acute-onset, painful incomplete third-nerve palsy caused by an internal carotid-posterior communicating artery (IC-PC) aneurysm. We describe the differential diagnosis with Tolosa-Hunt syndrome and the results after endovascular treatment. DISCUSSION The presence of pupil-sparing third-nerve palsy may not exclude the presence of an IC-PC aneurysm an...
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عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1460-2725,1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcw139