Complete ophthalmoplegia associated with clival fracture following trauma: Case report and clinicoanatomical correlation

Complete ophthalmoplegia associated with clival fracture following trauma: Case report and clinicoanatomical correlation

Fractures of clivus occur following high energy trauma and are rare. There are a few reports of associated vascular and brainstem injury in literature. We report a patient with transverse clivus fracture and complete ophthalmoplegia and bilateral multiple cranial nerve palsies. A young boy was admit...

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Main Authors: A Arivazhagan, N Garg, B Indira Devi, B Rose Dawn, P Pandey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2007-06-01
Series:The Indian Journal of Neurotrauma
Subjects:
Clivus fracture
post-traumatic ophthalmoplegia
post-traumatic cranial nerve palsy
midbrain injury
post-traumatic cortical infarcts
Online Access:http://www.ijntonline.com/June07/abstracts/11.PDF

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