Laun A, Tonn J C
Department of Neurosurgery, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, West Germany.
Neurosurg Rev. 1988;11(2):137-41. doi: 10.1007/BF01794677.
Fifty-eight of 570 patients with an aneurysm and/or subarachnoid hemorrhage displayed palsy of one or several cranial nerves. In 48 patients, this lesion occurred in the context of SAH (total n = 534). The oculomotor nerve was most frequently affected (38 cases), followed by the abducens nerve with the second-highest incidence (18 cases). The highest rate of cranial nerve symptoms occurred in cases of ophthalmic carotid aneurysms (83.3%). Damage to the abducens nerve regressed most rapidly.
