Abstract
The eleventh cranial nerve, the spinal accessory nerve (CN XI), is the only cranial nerve whose origins must be searched for outside the foramen magnum at the level of the cervical spinal level. Its anatomical course, function, pathology and major clinical syndromes are described.
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Eisenmenger, L.B., Wiggins, R.H. (2018). Cranial Nerve XI: Spinal Accessory. In: Agarwal, N., Port, J. (eds) Neuroimaging: Anatomy Meets Function. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57427-1_22
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