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Cranial Nerve

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Cranial nerves consist of 12 pairs and have several anatomical and functional peculiarities. Cranial nerves 3–12 have their nuclei within the brainstem or also in the cervical spinal cord. They can be distinguished as nuclear, parenchymatous, or having an intracranial course, a specific site of exit of the skull, or an extracranial distribution. The specificity of symptoms and signs and the combination of two or more CN lesions help to achieve a precise anatomical localization (Fig. 5.1).

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Grisold, W. (2014). Cranial Nerve. In: Atlas of Neuromuscular Diseases. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1605-0_5

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