Ben Nsir Atef, Thai Quoc-Anh, Hmida Badii
Department of Neurosurgery, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia.
Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
World Neurosurg. 2017 Dec;108:985.e5-985.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.08.110. Epub 2017 Aug 25.
The incidence of primary traumatic oculomotor nerve palsies in craniocerebral trauma is approximately 1.2% and is usually persistent and associated with loss of consciousness, other neurologic deficits, and skull base or orbital fractures. This case is a rare demonstration of complete left third nerve palsy from uncal herniation after trauma without any loss of consciousness.