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. 2021 Sep 19;269(4):2140–2148. doi: 10.1007/s00415-021-10761-w

Table 2.

Proportion of etiological subgroups in CNP III, CNP IV, CNP VI, and multiple OMNP

Etiologies CNP III ≈% (n = 147) CNP IV ≈% (n = 71) CNP VI ≈% (n = 210) Multiple ≈% (n = 46)
Idiopathic 15.6% (23) 39.4% (28) 27.1% (57) 6.5% (3)
Diabetogenic 13.6% (20) 21.1% (15) 13.3% (28) 0
Space-occupying lesions thereof: 20.4% (30) 2.8% (2) 18.6% (39) 23.9% (11)
–Intraorbital 0.7% (1) 0 1.0% (2) 4.3% (2)
–Lesions close to the cavernous sinus 9.5% (14) 1.4% (1) 4.8% (10) 13.0% (6)
–Intracerebral, meningeal, intrathecal 10.2% (15) 1.4% (1) 12.9% (27) 6.5% (3)
Inflammation thereof: 27.2% (40) 25.4% (18) 30% (63) 67.4% (31)
–Autoimmune/inflammatory 22.4% (33) 19.7% (14) 23.8% (50) 54.3% (25)
–Viral, bacterial 4.8% (7) 5.6% (4) 6.2% (13) 13.0% (6)
Brainstem infarctions 19.7% (29) 9.9% (7) 7.1% (15) 2.2% (1)
Others 3.4% (5) 1.4% (1) 3.8% (8) 0