purpose: to evaluate demographics and therapeutic outcomes of patients with third nerve palsy who had been treated between 1999 to 2009 at labbafinejad medical center. methods: in this retrospective study, we evaluated 52 patients with third nerve palsy who had been referred to labbafinejad medical center over a ten-year period. results: in this retrospective study, subjects who had been treate...

Bell’s palsy is an idiopathic peripheral nerve palsy involving the facial nerve. It accounts for 60 to 75% of all cases of unilateral facial paralysis. The main mechanisms to induce BP remain unclear, but infection, ischemic condition and immunodeficiency may contribute to the development of Bell’s palsy. Accumulating evidence has shown several factors can trigger the reactivation of latent...

OBJECTIVES To identify the key predictive factors of radiation-induced cranial nerve palsy in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). METHOD AND MATERIALS From November 1998 to December 2007, all consecutive patients with newly diagnosed NPC who were curatively treated with radiotherapy and subsequently developed radiation-induced cranial nerve palsy (RICNP) were included in our study. ...

how to cite this article:  inaloo s, katibeh p. guillain-barre syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve palsy. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter;8(1):69-71. objective this case study is about an 11-year-old girl with bilateral facial weakness, abnormal taste sensation, and deep tendon reflexes of both knees and ankles were absent. however, the muscle power of the lower and upper extremiti...

case presentation here, we report the case of a 35-year-old man complaining of bilateral incomplete eye closure, two weeks after a closed head injury caused by a motor vehicle accident. introduction although bilateral facial nerve palsy is a rare condition, its etiology is more detectable than the unilateral type. a temporal bone fracture is one cause of bilateral facial nerve palsy, contributi...

purpose: to determine the distribution of oculomotor, abducens, and trochlear nerve palsies in diabetic patients with ocular nerve palsy. methods: this study was performed on all diabetic patients who referred to ophthalmology and neurology clinics at yazd medical science university because of ocular palsy from march 2004 to october 2005. signs and symptoms of the disorder were evaluated. resul...

purpose: to evaluate the results of augmented vertical rectus muscle transposition with intraoperative botulinum toxin for complete and chronic sixth nerve palsy. methods: during a 10 years period (1381-1390) all patients with chronic and complete sixth nerve palsy, and contracted medial rectus (mr) underwent augmented vertical rectus muscle transposition with botulimum toxin injection into the...

OBJECTIVE To determine feasibility of ultrasonography in detecting the normal accessory nerve as well as pathologic changes in cases of accessory nerve palsy. METHODS Four patients with accessory nerve palsy were investigated by ultrasonography. Three cases of accessory nerve palsy after lymph node biopsy and neck dissection were primarily diagnosed on the basis of ultrasonography using a 5- ...

how to cite this article: harsh v, chengazhacherril r.b, sharmak, kalakoti p, gupta u, ahmad w, kumar a. sciatic nerve injection palsy in children. iran j child neurol. autumn 2016; 10(4):86-87.   letter to editor  pls see pdf file.   references 1. toopchizadeh v, barzegar m, habibzadeh a. sciatic nerve injection palsy in children, electrophysiologic pattern and outcome: a case series study. ir...