Bell's palsy is a condition that affects the facial nerve, which is one of the twelve cranial nerves. Its main function is to control all the muscles of the facial expression. It is a unilateral, acute, partial or complete paralysis of the facial nerve. Bell's palsy remains the most common cause of facial nerve paralysis, more often encountered in females aged 17 to 30 years, recurrent in many ...

Asymmetric facial appearance may originate from abnormalities of facial musculature or facial innervation. Congenital absence or hypoplasia of facial muscles has not been known except for the depressor anguli oris muscle. Even, congenital unilateral hypoplasia of the orbicularis oris muscle cause of unilateral upper lip palsy has not been reported in the literature up to day. In this report, we...

Common peroneal nerve palsy in maxillofacial surgery setting is an uncommon and rarely reported complication. A patient who developed common peroneal nerve palsy following reduction and fixation of pan facial fractures under general anesthesia is presented. The patient developed common peroneal nerve palsy on the second postoperative day. He recovered with conservative treatment after 3 months....

OBJECTIVE To assess the practical diagnostic value of facial nerve antidromic evoked potential (FNAEP), we compared it with the diagnostic value of the electroneurography (ENoG) test in Bell's palsy. METHODS In total, 20 patients with unilateral Bell's palsy were recruited. Between the 1st and 17th days after the onset of facial palsy, FNAEP and ENoG tests were conducted. The degeneration rat...

Peripheral facial nerve palsy is the most common cranial nerve motor neuropathy. In majority of the cases, the cause is idiopathic and improvement of facial muscle function begins within first 3 weeks after onset of disease. This report presents a case of 61-year-old male patient who recourse to the emergency department with facial pain and asymmetry followed by peripheral unilateral facial ner...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has not yet been established systematically to detect structural muscular changes after facial nerve lesion. The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate quantitative assessment of MRI muscle volume data for facial muscles. METHODS Ten healthy subjects and 5 patients with facial palsy were recruited. Using manual or semiautomatic segmentation ...

BACKGROUND Bell's palsy is an idiopathic, acute peripheral-nerve palsy involving the facial nerve which supplies all the muscles of facial expression. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of electro-A=acupuncture on patients with facial palsy. METHODS This study was conducted on patients with facial palsy at a private clinic at Peshawar during 1999-2009, and 49 cases were included...

A 65 year old black male presents with chronic right facial paralysis. After poor response to standard treatment, additional testing reveals seventh nerve palsy caused by parotid malignancy. I. Case History -Patient Demographics 65 year old black male presents for ophthalmic consultation requested by his otolaryngologist. -Chief Complaint Patient reports onset of right sided facial paralysis be...

incidence of facial nerve palsy is relatively high following parotid surgery, with the rates of transient and permanent palsy being reported as high as 65% and 7% respectively. The initial branching arrangement we have shown may have implications for parotid surgery as the surgeon would need to be aware of the presence of six early branches. In particular, vigilance of the location of Branch I,...