title: [Misleading presentation of rhombencephalitis due to Listeria monocytogenes].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Donostia, San Sebastián. g3.neuro@ya.com
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marinas Alejo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bautista Espinal
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sebastián
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Marti Massó
mesh_terms: 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