Delayed cranial nerve palsy after microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm.

Objective: Microvascular decompression (MVD) for hemifacial spasm (HFS) is a safe and effective treatment with favorable outcomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of delayed cranirve ( VI, VII, and VIII ) palsy following MVD and its clinical courses.

Methods: Between January 1998 and December 2009, 1354 patients underwent MVD for HFS at our institution.

Regrowing synovial chondromatosis in a cervical facet joint with radiculopathy.

Synovial chondromatosis (SC) in the spine is rare. There are few reports of associated cervical radiculopathy and there has not been a case reported of regrowing cervical SC. Here we report a 21-year-old man with a SC of a cervical facet joint that extended into the intervertebral foramen and compressed the cervical nerve root.