[Hemifacial spasm disclosing neurinoma of the hypoglossal nerve].
A hemifacial spasm was symptomatic of a neurinoma of the hypoglossal nerve in a 50 year-old woman. It disappeared after the surgical cure of the tumor. Hemifacial spasm is not mentioned among the 19 cases of neurinoma of the hypoglossal nerve which have been reported up to now. The spasm could have been due to the compression of the 7th nerve by the anterior inferior cerebellar artery, displaced by the tumor.
Pou Serradell
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Service de Neurologie, Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
Moral Pijaume
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Soler Singla
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Llovet Tapies
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Escudero Rubi
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D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D005152:Facial Muscles; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007002:Hypoglossal Nerve; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000150:complications*; D013035:Spasm / Q000209:etiology*
Spasme hémifacial révélateur d'un neurinome du nerf hypoglosse.