Objective: To report the youngest case of a bilateral facial palsy secondary to central nervous system relapse from acute lymphoblastic leukemia in female young patient that was treated with intrathecal chemotherapy, systemic corticosteroids, and physical therapy successful outcomes. Design: A 9-years old palsy. Results: presented complete right nerve progresses 10 days later simultaneous grade...

during last decades many researchers have focused on the conditions associated with bell's palsy including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and viral infections. this study was performed to evaluate correlation of diabetes mellitus and bell's palsy and some relevant features not discussed in the literature in an iranian population. the presence of diabetes mellitus was evaluated in a total numb...

The author examined personally 169 cases of otitic facial palsy which were treated without surgery of the Fallopian canal. This extensive follow-up showed that no case got complete recovery unless recovery had commenced within two months of the onset of the palsy. Many began recovery later and recovery was considerable, but it was never complete. He therefore concludes that if complete recovery...

©2003 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi.10.1302/0301-620X.85B3.14147 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2003;85-B:313-8. Palsy of the anterior interosseous nerve (AIN) was first described by Tinel1 in 1918 under the title ‘Dissociated paralysis of the median nerve’. In 1948 Parsonage and Turner2 noted six examples of this syndrome in a review of 136 patients with neuralgic amyot...

Isolated abducens nerve palsy following lumbar puncture is a very rare condition. In this case we discussed the probable causes of abducens nerve palsy and review the mechanism of action in anatomical relevant literature. A 53-year old hypertensive female patient with a saccular aneursym on the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) bifurcation underwent emergency operation. Before the operation lum...

purpose: to evaluate the efficacy of subtenon injection of botulinum toxin a (dysport) in acute 6th nerve palsy. methods: this randomized clinical trial was performed on 28 patients with 6th nerve palsy of less than 3 months’ duration without history of extraocular muscles abnormality. ophthalmic examinations included visual acuity, degree of eye deviation, slitlamp biomicroscopy and funduscopy...