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Slowly progressive cranial nerve palsies
Author(s) -
Warner Giles C,
Gandhi Mitesh,
Panizza Benidict
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00423.x
Subject(s) - medicine , head and neck , skull , general surgery , surgery
Perineural spread (PNS) from these lesionsinvolves either small nerves, identified at pathological examina-tion (incidental), or large nerves, presenting clinically as cranialnerve palsies. Basal cell carcinoma is the more common skincancer, but incidental PNS is most frequently associated withsquamous cell carcinoma.