Internal Carotid Artery dissection presenting as Isolated Hypoglossal nerve palsy
Ahmad, A.; Baghomian, A.; Travis, P.; Doran, M.
Acute Medicine 8(1): 22-25
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1747-4884 PMID: 21607205 Document Number: 13186
Internal carotid dissection most commonly presents as headache, focal neurological deficits or stroke. Rarely it can manifest itself by causing a palsy of the lower cranial nerves (IX, X, XI, XII). The reported incidence of isolated cranial nerve palsies is rare. We report a case of an internal carotid artery dissection manifesting as isolated XII (hypoglossal) cranial nerve palsy.
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