Tentorial meningioma presenting as hemifacial spasm: An unusual clinical scenario

Hemifacial spasm (HFS), which is a rare clinical entity, occurs most commonly due to vascular structures at facial nerve root entry zone. Tumor as a cause of HFS is rarely described in the literature. Here, we describe an unusual case of HFS which is caused by contralateral tentorial meningioma. The...

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Autores principales: Nayak, Raghavendra, Chaudhuri, Anupkumar, Chattopadhyay, Aniruddha, Ghosh, Samarendranath
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27057238
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.145174
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author Nayak, Raghavendra
Chaudhuri, Anupkumar
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Ghosh, Samarendranath
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description Hemifacial spasm (HFS), which is a rare clinical entity, occurs most commonly due to vascular structures at facial nerve root entry zone. Tumor as a cause of HFS is rarely described in the literature. Here, we describe an unusual case of HFS which is caused by contralateral tentorial meningioma. The pathology, etiology, and surgical treatment have been discussed.
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spelling pubmed-48029532016-04-07 Tentorial meningioma presenting as hemifacial spasm: An unusual clinical scenario Nayak, Raghavendra Chaudhuri, Anupkumar Chattopadhyay, Aniruddha Ghosh, Samarendranath Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Hemifacial spasm (HFS), which is a rare clinical entity, occurs most commonly due to vascular structures at facial nerve root entry zone. Tumor as a cause of HFS is rarely described in the literature. Here, we describe an unusual case of HFS which is caused by contralateral tentorial meningioma. The pathology, etiology, and surgical treatment have been discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4802953/ /pubmed/27057238 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.145174 Text en Copyright: © Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Tentorial meningioma presenting as hemifacial spasm: An unusual clinical scenario
title Tentorial meningioma presenting as hemifacial spasm: An unusual clinical scenario
title_full Tentorial meningioma presenting as hemifacial spasm: An unusual clinical scenario
title_fullStr Tentorial meningioma presenting as hemifacial spasm: An unusual clinical scenario
title_full_unstemmed Tentorial meningioma presenting as hemifacial spasm: An unusual clinical scenario
title_short Tentorial meningioma presenting as hemifacial spasm: An unusual clinical scenario
title_sort tentorial meningioma presenting as hemifacial spasm: an unusual clinical scenario
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802953/
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