Vernet syndrome
The Vernet syndrome is a clinical picture in the common or partial failure of the cranial nerves IX , X and XI . Since these cranial nerves together leave the skull through the jugular foramen , and this is where the cause of their failures can lie, it is also known as the jugular foramen syndrome.
The first descriptions of the syndrome come from the French neurologist Maurice Vernet in 1916 and 1918.
Symptoms
The affected persons show symptoms of failure or paralysis of the above-mentioned cranial nerves . This can be shown by the following symptoms:
- Dysphonia
- Dysphagia
- Disorders of the sensibility and sensory functions of the back third (quality: bitter) of the tongue
- Paralysis of the affected side of the soft palate causes it to deviate to the healthy side
- Decrease in parotid - secretion
- Impairment of the gag reflex
- Failures of the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the trapezius muscle
causes
- Glomus tumor (most common)
- Meningioma
- Schwannoma (acoustic neuroma)
- Metastases in the cerebellopontine angle
- trauma
- Cholesteatoma (rather rare)
literature
- FS Erol, M. Kaplan, A. Kavakli, MF Ozveren: Jugular foramen syndrome caused by choleastatoma . In: Clin Neurol Neurosurg . tape 107 , no. 4 , June 2005, p. 342-346 , doi : 10.1016 / j.clineuro.2004.08.006 , PMID 15885397 .
- Krasnianski M et al .: The Schmidt and Vernet classical syndrome. Alternating brain stem syndromes that do not exist ?. Neurologist. 2003 Dec; 74 (12): 1150-4. PMID 14647918
