Volume 25, Issue 113, July 2021

Facial colliculus syndrome with inflammatory cranial neuritis in a patient with covid 19 with mucormycosis superinfection

Shivam Khanna¹, Dhruv Talwar¹, Sunil Kumar², Sourya Acharya^3♦, Vidya Hulkoti¹, Sparsh Madan⁴

¹Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharastra, India
²Professor, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharastra, India
³Professor and Head of Department, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharastra, India
⁴Post Graduate Resident, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharastra, India

^♦Corresponding author
Professor and Head of Department, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharastra, India

ABSTRACT

Features of unilateral cranial nerve 7th lower motor neuron palsy and same sided 6th nerve involvement without hemiplegia or hemiparesis is a rare clinical entity in itself, which is referred to as Facial Colliculus Syndrome. This presentation was noticed in a patient of Covid 19 positive status and mucormycosis not on prolonged steroid treatment. This is a case report of an 80-year old female patient who was admitted to the medical ward of our hospital with presenting complaints of breathlessness and fever of 5 days duration. Later during course of the disease on followup in hospital she developed left sided 6th and 7th cranial nerve involvement. This case report highlights the case of an elderly female patient presenting with cranial nerve involvement with mucormycosis with covid 19 superinfection on followup after home quarantine.

Keywords: Facial Colliculus Syndrome, Cranial Neuritis, Mucormycosis, Covid-19

Medical Science, 2021, 25(113), 1517-1521

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