Purpose To report four cases of cranial nerve palsy, which presented to the ophthalmologist as the only or one of the earliest manifestations of prostatic carcinoma. This is an infrequent complication ...

Isolated third cranial nerve palsies in head trauma patients can be the result of direct or indirect damage to the oculomotor nerve. They are usually associated with severe head trauma. We reported a ...

When assessing a patient with acute-onset diplopia, it is important to evaluate three ocular structures: the lids, the pupil, and the extraocular muscles. Diplopia accompanied by unilateral ptosis ...

Dear Doctors: I had an episode where it felt like my left eye went out of alignment and I couldn’t focus. A brain scan was clear, but the doctor said it’s cranial nerve palsy. He says it’s from a ...

Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2007;3(6):331-340. Recent developments in our understanding of pain perception have shown that transmission of painful stimuli depends on activation of sodium channels that are ...

Dear Doctors: I had an episode where it felt like my left eye went out of alignment and I couldn’t focus. A brain scan was clear, but the doctor said it’s cranial nerve palsy. He says it’s from a ...