This study sought to determine if speech-language pathology graduate students found peer-to-peer teaching and experiential learning beneficial in how assess the cranial nerves. Graduate a motor speech disorders course completed an in-class nerve examination which they either portrayed clinicians or patients. Student groups utilized reflective practice approach by their peers Intensive sessions ...

Investigators from Armand-Trousseau hospital and University of Paris studied 90 infants aged birth to 6 months with multiple cranial nerve involvement.

A 61-year-old man with recent Bell’s palsy developed acute vocal cord paralysis causing severe dysphagia. CSF analysis showed elevated protein and a normal cell count; contrast-enhancedMRI of the brain was normal. He was treated with IVIG for a presumed bulbar-variant AIDP and gradually improved. Sixmonths later, the patient developed rapidly progressive hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction....

Despite the recent progress of MR imaging, visualization of the cranial nerves within the brain stem has not been accomplished. Periodically rotated overlapping parallel lines with enhanced reconstruction (PROPELLER) multishot diffusion-weighted imaging, an effective method for compensating for motion and distortion, offers high-quality diffusion-weighted images. We succeeded in depicting the c...

The skull base tumors invariably involve one or more cranial nerves as they grow, first distorting their normal course and then altering their integrity. The use of the high density diffusion tensor imaging technique as a complementary tool permits the identification of cranial nerves in these cases and, in combination with current neurosurgery techniques, it allows for the implementation of a ...

Computed tomography is effective for detecting acoustic neuromas, but not for resolving individual nerves in the internal auditory canal. Surface-coil magnetic resonance (MR) images of the internal auditory canal were obtained using a 1.5 T superconducting magnet, a 13.5-cm-diameter surface coil, 3- and 5-mm-thick slices, and partial-saturation pulse sequences. Cranial nerves VII and VIII (thre...

Primary neurolymphomatosis is an extremely rare tumor. We report the case of a 74-year-old patient presenting with dysphagia and hoarseness. Initial contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the head, neck, and chest did not reveal any lesions. His symptoms improved with short-term administration of prednisone but recurred and deteriorated. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed a tumor along ...

Abnormalities of ocular motility serve as valuable signposts for the localization of lesions of the cerebral hemispheres, brainstem, cranial nerves, and even striated muscle. Ocular symptoms and signs are particularly helpful when examining the patient in coma (see Chapter 22). In this chapter, the term ocular motor refers to cranial nerves III (oculomotor), IV (trochlear), and VI (abducens), c...