Peripheral facial nerve paralysis is the most common form of motor cranial neuropathy. Several factors can cause Bell’s palsy such as vascular ischemia, intracranial lesions, iatrogenic damage, etc. Treatment relies on diagnosing the causing factor, varying from steroids to surgical techniques. Since there has been but few reports of facial nerve paralysis caused by dental infection, odon...

The syndrome of spontaneous low CSF volume headache is caused by spontaneous or traumatic leaks of the CSF from the subarachnoid space. The CSF hypovolaemia causes sagging of the brain and traction of cranial nerves leading sometimes to overt cranial nerve palsies. We report three cases of this syndrome, in which abducens nerve palsy developed after postural headache in two patients, and neck a...

Ramsay Hunt syndrome is an infection of the head and neck caused by varicella zoster virus involving the facial nerve; less commonly, other cranial nerves might be involved. We report a case of Ramsay Hunt syndrome in an immune compromised patient, with classic facial nerve palsy and ipsilateral ear vesicles, which rapidly evolved to involve multiple cranial neuropathies, and improved dramatica...

Introduction. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the clinical course, with the dural carotid cavernous fistula (CCF), featuring a pallet of symptoms, paying special attention to radiological findings. Methods. Seventy-six consecutive patients with dural CCFs were investigated in detail, all of whom were defined by angiography. Results. The most common initial symptom was diplopia in 47 pat...

A 32-year-old man experienced double vision around January, 2010, followed by weakness of his left upper and lower extremities. Articulation disorders and loss of hearing in his left ear developed, and he was admitted to our hospital on February 14, 2010. Physical examination was normal, and neurological examination showed clear consciousness with no impairment of cognitive function, but with a...

Bilateral facial nerve palsy is an uncommon occurrence. We describe a case of bilateral facial nerve palsy secondary to a single cycle of high-dose paclitaxel therapy (825 mg/m2), in a woman with breast cancer. Prior to her high-dose therapy, she had a residual grade 2 peripheral neuropathy following treatment with ten cycles of standard-dose paclitaxel (total dose 3200 mg). The features of the...

background: vestibular schwannoma (vs) is one of the skull base tumors originating from vestibular portion of eighth cranial nerve. recently, 2μ- thulium laser is used in the surgery of some intracranial tumors. objectives: assessing the efficacy of 2μ-thulium flexible hand-held laser fiber (revolixjrò) in microsurgical removal of vs. materials and methods: this retrospective non-randomized stu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the predictors of neurological sequel in tuberculous meningitis (TBM). METHODS This study was carried out at the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, between January 1998 and March 2009. Neurological sequels at 6 months of 160 adult patients with TBM who had been followed up were assessed re...