title: Facial nerve palsy secondary to a dural cavernous angioma of the middle cranial fossa eroding the tegmen tympani.
abstract: A patient with a dural cavernous angioma of the middle cranial fossa eroding the tegmen tympani and causing an isolated palsy of the facial nerve is presented. The rarity of this lesion is stressed, as are the peculiar clinical findings and the magnetic resonance imaging.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurosurgery, Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pozzati
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giuliani
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ferracini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gaist
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003399:Craniotomy; D004388:Dura Mater; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology*; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed