Abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: A case report

Abducens nerve palsy is a common ocular motor paralysis with a broad set of etiopathogenetic causes. Magnetic resonance imaging is a key diagnostic technique to investigate organic causes of sixth nerve palsy, as it allows a detailed representation of the course of the nerve, particularly in its int...

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Autores principales: Canovetti, Silvia, Pasquali, Livia, Di Salle, Gianfranco, Lucchi, Giacomo, Donatelli, Graziella, Cosottini, Mirco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9463546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36097595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.08.001
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author Canovetti, Silvia
Pasquali, Livia
Di Salle, Gianfranco
Lucchi, Giacomo
Donatelli, Graziella
Cosottini, Mirco
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Pasquali, Livia
Di Salle, Gianfranco
Lucchi, Giacomo
Donatelli, Graziella
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description Abducens nerve palsy is a common ocular motor paralysis with a broad set of etiopathogenetic causes. Magnetic resonance imaging is a key diagnostic technique to investigate organic causes of sixth nerve palsy, as it allows a detailed representation of the course of the nerve, particularly in its intracisternal tract. Anatomical variants of the sixth cranial nerve comprise duplications and fenestrations in various traits. Anatomical variants of cerebellar arteries have also been described. We report the case of a patient with abducens nerve palsy presumably related to a neurovascular conflict due to a peculiar anatomical variant, which consists in a cerebellar artery passing through the intracisternal duplication of the abducens nerve.
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spelling pubmed-94635462022-09-11 Abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: A case report Canovetti, Silvia Pasquali, Livia Di Salle, Gianfranco Lucchi, Giacomo Donatelli, Graziella Cosottini, Mirco Radiol Case Rep Case Report Abducens nerve palsy is a common ocular motor paralysis with a broad set of etiopathogenetic causes. Magnetic resonance imaging is a key diagnostic technique to investigate organic causes of sixth nerve palsy, as it allows a detailed representation of the course of the nerve, particularly in its intracisternal tract. Anatomical variants of the sixth cranial nerve comprise duplications and fenestrations in various traits. Anatomical variants of cerebellar arteries have also been described. We report the case of a patient with abducens nerve palsy presumably related to a neurovascular conflict due to a peculiar anatomical variant, which consists in a cerebellar artery passing through the intracisternal duplication of the abducens nerve. Elsevier 2022-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9463546/ /pubmed/36097595 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.08.001 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Canovetti, Silvia
Pasquali, Livia
Di Salle, Gianfranco
Lucchi, Giacomo
Donatelli, Graziella
Cosottini, Mirco
Abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: A case report
title Abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: A case report
title_full Abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: A case report
title_fullStr Abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: A case report
title_short Abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: A case report
title_sort abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9463546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36097595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.08.001
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