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  • Title: Collet-Sicard syndrome resulting from closed head injury: case report.
    Author: Wani MA, Tandon PN, Banerji AK, Bhatia R.
    Journal: J Trauma; 1991 Oct; 31(10):1437-9. PubMed ID: 1942161.
    Abstract:
    A 67-year-old man developed paralysis of the right ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth cranial nerves (Collet-Sicard syndrome) after sustaining a closed head injury. Plain x-ray films of the skull revealed two linear fractures of the occipital bone (one of them probably traversing through the right occipital condyle) and a prominent soft-tissue shadow in the region of the nasopharynx, suggestive of a skull base fracture. The patient was managed conservatively. This is the only case of unilateral multiple caudal cranial nerve palsies (IX through XII), seen by us over a 20-year period, from among more than 5,000 moderate to significant head injuries.
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