![]() ![]() Twelfth Nerve Palsy – atrophy, weakness, paralysis, and/or fasciculations of the tongue.Eleventh Nerve Palsy – loss of shoulder shrug, drooping of shoulder, dull posterior shoulder pain.Tenth Nerve Palsy – dysphagia, dyspnea, change in voice, loss of gag reflex, bradycardia, GI upset.Ninth Nerve Palsy – dysphagia, impaired taste on posterior third of tongue, loss of carotid sinus reflex, loss of gag reflex, and dysfunction of parotid gland.Eighth Nerve dysfunction – vertigo, tinnitus, nystagmus, sensorineural hearing loss. ![]() Seventh Nerve Palsy– facial paralysis/asymmetry, facial droop, drooling, pain around jaw or behind ear ipsilaterally, headache, loss of taste, xerostomia, decreased tear production.Sixth Nerve Palsy (see Abducens Nerve Palsy).Fifth Nerve dysfunction (see Trigeminal Neuralgia).Fourth Nerve Palsy – vertical or torsional diplopia.Third Nerve Palsy – diplopia, ptosis, pupillary involvement, deviation of eye downward and outward.The clinical findings may include but are not limited to: Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis.Chemotherapy induced neuritis (Immune checkpoint inhibitors).Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease(MOG-AD).Guillan-Barré (Miller-Fisher) syndrome.Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis. ![]() Ĭranial neuritis documented in the literature focus on infectious and autoimmune etiologies, although cases of neoplastic, vascular, and idiopathic cause have also been reported. Involvement of multiple cranial nerves within the disease process can be classified as polyneuritis cranialis. The inflammatory process may cause destruction and/or demyelination of the nerves. Cranial neuritis is the inflammation of a cranial nerve. ![]()
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