[Misleading presentation of rhombencephalitis due to Listeria monocytogenes].
BACKGROUND
Rhombencephalitis due to Listeria monocytogenes may present in a variety of forms.


METHODS
We describe the case of a 76 years old male presenting with an acute symmetrical palsy of fifth, seventh, ninth-tenth cranial nerves, ophthalmoparesia and miosis, without evident signs of long tract lesion, mimicking a peripheral nervous system or neuromuscular junction disease. The results of the blood cultures and the magnetic resonance imaging gave the diagnosis of rhombencephalitis due to Listeria.


CONCLUSIONS
Rhombencephalitis due to Listeria monocytogenes may present as a symmetric palsy of cranial nerves, therefore it can mimic a cranial nerves multineuritis syndrome.
Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez
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Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Donostia, San Sebastián. g3.neuro@ya.com
Marinas Alejo
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Bautista Espinal
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J
Sebastián
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Marti Massó
J F
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D000368:Aged; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes; D008088:Listeriosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012249:Rhombencephalon / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology