Abducens nerve palsy in a congenital anomalous neurovascular development of the sixth cranial nerve and anterior inferior cerebellar artery: A case report

Radiology Case Reports

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Silvia Canovetti¹  Livia Pasquali¹  Gianfranco Di Salle¹  Giacomo Lucchi¹  Graziella Donatelli¹  Mirco Cosottini¹ 

[1] Neuroradiology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana

关键词: Abducens nerve palsy;    Neurovascular conflict;    MRI;    Anatomical variants;    Cranial nerves;    Cerebellar arteries;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.radcr.2022.08.001

学科分类：生物化学工程

来源: University of Washington * Department of Radiology

【 摘 要 】

Abducens nerve palsy is a common ocular motor paralysis with a broad set of etiopathogenetic causes. Magnetic resonance imaging is a key diagnostic technique to investigate organic causes of sixth nerve palsy, as it allows a detailed representation of the course of the nerve, particularly in its intracisternal tract. Anatomical variants of the sixth cranial nerve comprise duplications and fenestrations in various traits. Anatomical variants of cerebellar arteries have also been described. We report the case of a patient with abducens nerve palsy presumably related to a neurovascular conflict due to a peculiar anatomical variant, which consists in a cerebellar artery passing through the intracisternal duplication of the abducens nerve.

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