tuberculous spondylitis is not an uncommon disease of the spine. near one percent of all cases of spinal tuberculosis (tb) involves craniocervical junction. hypoglossal nerve palsy is not an uncommon neurological finding, but isolated involvement of the hypoglossal nerve is rare and limited to case reports or small case series. here, we report a case of craniocervical junction tuberculosis pres...

purpose: to evaluate demographics and therapeutic outcomes of patients with third nerve palsy who had been treated between 1999 to 2009 at labbafinejad medical center. methods: in this retrospective study, we evaluated 52 patients with third nerve palsy who had been referred to labbafinejad medical center over a ten-year period. results: in this retrospective study, subjects who had been treate...

The skin on the dorsum of the foot is innervated by the superficial peroneal and saphenous nerves. Most of the dorsum is supplied by the superficial peroneal nerve. Here we report a variation in the sensory innervation of the cadaver. The skin of the first inter which is normally innervated by the deep peroneal nerve was also supplied by the superficial peroneal nerve. A communication between t...

Ganglia were first described by Hippocrates, as `knots of tissue' containing `mucoid flesh' (1). They occur most commonly at the wrist and occasionally at the knee. They usually present with pain and rarely cause compressive neuropathies. Hartwell (2) in 1901 first described peripheral nerve (median nerve) involvement by a ganglion. In 1921, Sultan (3) reported a patient with paralysis of the c...