• Wakerlin and his associates have reported' 2 that chronic bilateral carotid sinus compression in dogs resulted in a sustained elevation of the mean arterial pressure. This finding was confirmed by Hawthorne and Gaspar, who reported also that the elevated mean arterial pressure after bilateral carotid sinus compression was ameliorated by hypophysectomy. Kezdi reported that bilateral constricti...

Between 1972 and 2012, 25 patients presenting 32 paragangliomas of the neck were observed. Tumor locations included the carotid body (CBTs) in 21 patients and the vagus nerve in 4. Four patients had bilateral CBT and one a bilateral vagal tumor; a metachronous bilateral jugulare paraganglioma was diagnosed in one patient with bilateral CBT Shamblin type III. Five patients presented CBTs type II...

OBJECTIVES To determine if preoperative radiographic cross-sectional images can predict the nerve of origin of a parapharyngeal schwannoma and, specifically, whether it originates from the vagus nerve or the cervical sympathetic chain. DESIGN A retrospective review. SETTING Academic medical center. PATIENTS The study population comprised 12 patients who underwent surgical resection of sch...

UNLABELLED Partial oculosympathetic palsy followed by ischemic manifestations in brain or retina are the main symptoms of extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection. Unusually, cranial nerves may be affected. Isolated oculomotor nerve palsy is found only rarely. CASE We present a 50-year-old nondiabetic man who experienced acute onset of right occipital headache which spread to the...