CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF VILLARETS SYNDROME

A 68-year-old man with a history of large cell lung carcinoma presente d 1 year after surgical management of the initial lesion, with a compl ete unilateral IX-XII cranial nerve palsy with Horner's sign. This rar e multiple cranial nerve palsy is called Villaret's syndrome. It sugge sts an extracranial lesion located in the retroparotid space. Complete basal skull radiology work up including computed tomography and magne tic resonance imaging confirmed the location of the causal lesion in t he retroparotid space.