Diabetes mellitus commonly causes involvement of cranial nerves and third nerve being the most common, however recurrent and multiple cranial nerve involvement is rare. We present here a case of recurrent cranial nerve palsy and spontaneous recovery in a patient with diabetes mellitus.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is an uncommon head and neck malignancy which can rarely present with cranial nerve palsies. Here we report a case of nasopharyngeal mass presented initially ophthalmic complaints due to compression nerves in superior orbital fissure resulting Rochen-Duvigneaud syndrome. It was histologically proven as non keratinising differentiated type

Background: Mucormycosis is a rare, aggressive, and fatal infection caused by fungi of the Mucorales order Zygomycete fungi. mainly found in patients with chronic conditions, clinical cases are observed only immunocompromised uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. Rhinocerebral type most prevalent mucormycosis which has characteristic method spread. Although involvement cranial nerves not common, it c...

Comments on " Neuromuscular Ultrasonography of Cranial Nerves " Dear Editor, We read with great interest the review article by Tawfik et al. 1 on the clinical applications of neuromuscular ultrasonography of cranial nerves. We would like to congratulate the authors for their interesting review, but we would also like to make some comments on the section concerning optic nerve (ON) evaluations, ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cranial nerve abnormalities might be observed in hemifacial microsomia and microtia (oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum), but the rate, features, and relationship with functional impairment or phenotype severity have not yet been defined. This study aimed at investigating absence/asymmetry, abnormal origin, morphology and course of cranial nerves, and presence/asymmetry of...

The traditional presentation of spontaneous internal carotid artery dissection includes ipsilateral hemicranial headache, oculosympathetic paresis, and contralateral focal cerebral ischemic deficits. However, we describe two cases with multiple cranial nerve involvement ipsilateral to the dissection as the principal feature. The first patient, a 36-year-old man, had involvement of the 9th, 10th...

Möbius' syndrome, also known as Möbius' sequence, is a nonprogressive cranial dysinnervation disorder characterized by congenital facial and abducens nerve paralysis. Here, we report a 5-day-old girl who was conceived after in vitro fertilization with poor suck and facial paralysis. She had bilaterally ptosis and lateral gaze limitation, left-sided deviation of the tongue, dysmorphic face, hypo...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate tumor control following subtotal resection of advanced jugular paragangliomas in patients with functional lower cranial nerves and to investigate the utility of salvage radiotherapy for residual progressive disease. STUDY DESIGN Case series with planned chart review. SETTING Tertiary academic referral center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Patients who presented with advanced...