The estimated incidence of acute facial paralysis is approximately 30 patients per 100000 populations annually. Facial paralysis is an extremely frightening situation and gives extreme stress to patients because obvious disfiguring face may cause significant functional, aesthetic, and psychological disturbances. For stressful patients with acute facial paralysis, it is very important for clinic...

Ramsay Hunt Syndrome (RHS) is a rare disease caused by reactivation of latent Varicella Zoster Virus in the geniculate ganglion which lead to inflammation, edema, and compression facial nerve. RHS may affect both immunocompetent immunocompromised patient. Clinical manifestation include herpes zoster oticus that manifest as vesicular rash on auricular area or oral mucosa combination with periphe...

OBJECTIVE To describe results in a large series of patients using a recent variation of hypoglossal-facial nerve anastomosis (HFA) in which the intratemporal facial nerve segment is used, obviating the need for a sensory nerve "jump graft." STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Tertiary neurotologic referral center. PATIENTS Nineteen patients (12 female/7 male subjects) with fa...

Bilateral vocal cord paralysis is a rare and preventable complication of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Herein, we report a fatal case of bilateral vocal cord paralysis after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACD/F). A 65-year-old man with cervical spine trauma and anterior cord syndrome, following car overturn presented to our emergency department. The patient had C6-T10 prola...

Case presentation: A 11-years-old girl, previously healthy, presented with a respiratory infection. Few weeks later, developed myalgia and proximal weakness. Her symptoms worsened promptly and, in week, she lost the ability to walk. She was admitted our hospital presenting confusion, ataxia, dysmetria, facial paralysis, nuchal rigidity, gaze palsy hyporeflexia. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) showed ...

First branchial cleft anomalies (FBCA) are rare in the clinical setting, as they account for 1 to 8% of all branchial abnormalities. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the fistula tract and facial nerve and the surgical method of FBCA. This retrospective study included 30 cases of FBCA in children managed from 2009 to 2016. All patients underwent surgery to remove ...

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All since 1951, it is now a weekly with 48 issues per year. Article abstract-Upper eyelid gold-weight implants are widely used in the correction of lagophthalmos in many neuromuscular conditions, most commonly facial palsy. The paralytic lagophthalmos that occurs in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is common and can cause severe ocular complications. It is not usually considered fo...

This study is to analyze the incidence of facial nerve paralysis after parotidectomy and the type of pathologic condition involved in Hospital Pakar Sultanah Fatimah, Muar between 2002 and 2006. There were 20 parotidectomies done on 20 patients over this period of time. Fourteen were done for tumour and six for inflammatory conditions. The pathology involved were pleomorphic adenoma 9 (45%) cas...