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Idiopathic Recurrent Polyneuritis Cranialis: A Rare Entity

Recurrent polyneuritis cranialis is a rare disorder that can affect multiple cranial nerves. We describe a young man who presented with recurrent cranial nerve (CN) palsies. His first episode at 17 years of age involved the right VI cranial nerve, the second episode at age 21 involved the left V and...

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Autores principales: Torres, Alcy R, Salvador, Carla, Mora, Mauricio, Mirchandani, Sharam, Chavez, Wilson
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6581414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31259106
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4488
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author Torres, Alcy R
Salvador, Carla
Mora, Mauricio
Mirchandani, Sharam
Chavez, Wilson
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Mora, Mauricio
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Chavez, Wilson
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description Recurrent polyneuritis cranialis is a rare disorder that can affect multiple cranial nerves. We describe a young man who presented with recurrent cranial nerve (CN) palsies. His first episode at 17 years of age involved the right VI cranial nerve, the second episode at age 21 involved the left V and VII cranial nerves while the last episode six months later affected the left IV cranial nerve. Based on the clinical findings and laboratory test results to exclude other possibilities, a diagnosis of idiopathic recurrent polyneuritis cranialis was made. This is a very rare disorder in childhood and adolescence. This is the youngest patient ever reported with recurrent polyneuritis cranialis of unknown etiology.
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spelling pubmed-65814142019-06-28 Idiopathic Recurrent Polyneuritis Cranialis: A Rare Entity Torres, Alcy R Salvador, Carla Mora, Mauricio Mirchandani, Sharam Chavez, Wilson Cureus Neurology Recurrent polyneuritis cranialis is a rare disorder that can affect multiple cranial nerves. We describe a young man who presented with recurrent cranial nerve (CN) palsies. His first episode at 17 years of age involved the right VI cranial nerve, the second episode at age 21 involved the left V and VII cranial nerves while the last episode six months later affected the left IV cranial nerve. Based on the clinical findings and laboratory test results to exclude other possibilities, a diagnosis of idiopathic recurrent polyneuritis cranialis was made. This is a very rare disorder in childhood and adolescence. This is the youngest patient ever reported with recurrent polyneuritis cranialis of unknown etiology. Cureus 2019-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6581414/ /pubmed/31259106 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4488 Text en Copyright © 2019, Torres et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Torres, Alcy R
Salvador, Carla
Mora, Mauricio
Mirchandani, Sharam
Chavez, Wilson
Idiopathic Recurrent Polyneuritis Cranialis: A Rare Entity
title Idiopathic Recurrent Polyneuritis Cranialis: A Rare Entity
title_full Idiopathic Recurrent Polyneuritis Cranialis: A Rare Entity
title_fullStr Idiopathic Recurrent Polyneuritis Cranialis: A Rare Entity
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic Recurrent Polyneuritis Cranialis: A Rare Entity
title_short Idiopathic Recurrent Polyneuritis Cranialis: A Rare Entity
title_sort idiopathic recurrent polyneuritis cranialis: a rare entity
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6581414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31259106
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4488
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