COMPLETE ISOLATED THIRD NERVE PARESIS ASSOSICATED WITH FUSIFORM DILATATION OF MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY

Year 2008, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, - , 01.06.2008

Abdulkadir Koçer Şefika Okuyucu

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COMPLETE ISOLATED THIRD NERVE PARESIS ASSOSICATED WITH FUSIFORM DILATATION OF MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY

Abstract

A 28 year-old-male sufferred left third nerve paresis. A pattern of complete and isolated paresis was observed. Neuroimaginings and conventional cerebral angiography revealed abnormally enlarged middle cerebral artery. Because of its fusiform nature, the abnormality was left untreated surgically. The third nerve palsy began to resolve within a week from onset after prednisolone administration. The present case was interesting because of resulting from fusiform dilatation of middle cerebral artery which was the only finding related to the third nevre palsy and early recovering of pupil

Keywords

Third nerve paresis, fusiform, aneursym, pupil, middle cerebral artery

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