PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Shruti Heda
AU  - Davala Krishna Karthik
AU  - Erigaisi Srinivas Rao
AU  - Anirudda Deshpande
TI  - Hypoglossal canal schwannoma causing isolated left 12th cranial nerve palsy
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2018-225544
DP  - 2018 Nov 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2018-225544
VI  - 2018
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2018-225544.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2018-225544.full
AB  - A 40-year-old woman presented with insidious onset, gradually progressive dysarthria and inability to manoeuvre bolus of food in her mouth while eating. The duration of her symptoms was 3 months. On evaluation, the left half of her tongue was wasted. The tongue deviated to the left on protrusion. There were no clinical features suggestive of involvement of the ipsilateral 9th, 10th or 11th cranial nerves. MRI of the brain showed a large, fusiform lesion in the left hypoglossal canal, extending into the jugular canal. The lesion was surgically excised and found to be a schwannoma.