[Acute palsy of twelfth cranial nerve].
The hypoglossal nerve or Twelfth-nerve palsy is a rare damage with different causes: tumors or metastases in skull base, cervicals tumors, schwannoma, dissection or aneurysm carotid arteries, stroke, trauma, idiopathic cause, radiation, infections (mononucleosis) or multiple cranial neuropathy. Tumors were responsible for nearly half of the cases in different studies. We studied a female with hypoglossal nerve acute palsy. We made a differential diagnostic with others causes and a review of the literature.
Munoz del Castillo
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Hospital Universitario Princesa Sofía, Córdoba. fmdelkastillo@yahoo.es
Molina Nieto
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De la Riva Aguilar
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Triviño Tarradas
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Bravo-Rodríguez
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Ramos Jurado
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001284:Atrophy / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020437:Hypoglossal Nerve Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging