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Acta neurologica Belgica · Dec 2015
Tapia's syndrome in the intensive care unit: a rare cause of combined cranial nerve palsy following intubation.
- M Coninckx, S Cardoen, and D Hemelsoet.
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Ghent, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Ghent, Belgium. Marieke.Coninckx@ugent.be.
- Acta Neurol Belg. 2015 Dec 1;115(4):533-7.
AbstractTapia's syndrome is characterized by unilateral paralysis of the tongue and vocal cord, and is caused by a concurrent lesion of both the recurrent laryngeal and hypoglossal nerves. The proposed mechanism in most patients is compression or stretching of these nerves on their extracranial course due to airway manipulation under general anaesthesia. As Tapia's syndrome is a rare and possibly devastating condition, recognition of the presence of concurrent paralyses is an important step in diagnosis and treatment. We report two cases of Tapia's syndrome as a complication of intubation in the intensive care unit.
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