Question 239 · LDEK · Cranial nerves and facial pain

X and XII nerve palsy, unilateral paralysis of the pharynx, paralysis and atrophy of the tongue occur in the course of:

  1. A. Sluder’s syndrome.
  2. B. Charlin’s syndrome.
  3. C. Tapia’s syndrome.
  4. D. glossopharyngeal nerve neuralgia.
  5. E. Costen’s syndrome.
Hint

Identify the eponymous syndrome defined by a combined lesion of the vagus and hypoglossal nerves.

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