Early endovascular management of oculomotor nerve palsy associated with posterior communicating artery aneurysms. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Palsy of the third cranial nerve (oculomotor nerve, CNIII) is a well-known clinical presentation of posterior communicating artery (P-com) aneurysm. We report a series of 11 patients with partial or complete third nerve palsy secondary to P-com aneurysm. All were treated with endovascular embolization within seven days of symptom onset. Third nerve palsy symptoms resolved in 7/11 (64%), improved in 2/11 (18%) and did not change in 2/11 (18%) patients.

publication date

  • March 25, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Cerebral Angiography
  • Embolization, Therapeutic
  • Intracranial Aneurysm
  • Oculomotor Nerve Diseases

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3277961

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 77952318191

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1177/159101991001600102

PubMed ID

  • 20377975

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 16

issue

  • 1