Nerve excitability is useful for prognosis in Bell's palsy. Minimal excitability values (MEV) were obtained by stimulating the facial nerve and recording the effective current (mA) required to evoke a minimal visible contraction of frontalis, orbicularis oculi, orbicularis oris, and mentalis muscles respectively. Serial MEVs were performed on 100 patients with facial palsy, of whom 87 were foll...

Background: Facial nerve palsy (seventh cranial palsy) is a common neurological problem. The etiology not fully understood but it thought to be due injury or compression throughout the seventh course. study aimed evaluate awareness of Hail region population about facial palsy, its risk factors, methods treatment, and prognosis. Methodology: This cross-sectional descriptive was conducted in from...

Peripheral facial weakness is a facial nerve damage that results in muscle weakness on one side of the face. It may be idiopathic (Bell's palsy) or may have a detectable cause. Almost 80% of peripheral facial weakness cases are primary and the rest of them are secondary. The most frequent causes of secondary peripheral facial weakness are systemic viral infections, trauma, surgery, diabetes, lo...

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...

OBJECTIVE Facial nerve palsy is a common complication of treatment for vestibular schwannoma (VS), so preserving facial nerve function is important. The preoperative visualization of the course of facial nerve in relation to VS could help prevent injury to the nerve during the surgery. In this study, we evaluate the accuracy of diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) for preoperative identification...

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...

uring parotid gland tumor resection, operations involving the facial nerve must be performed with the utmost caution. Postoperative facial nerve palsy is a complication that should be avoided. However, even when the parotid gland tissue is carefully and atraumatically dissected, transient paralysis can occur. Although paralysis improves over time, the duration is variable. Frey's syndrome is an...

262 Table 1 summarizes the differentiating features of our case and these two conditions. Classically Bell’s palsy has been defined as idiopathic and the cause of the inflammatory process in the facial nerve remains uncertain. Recently attention has focused on infection with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) as a possible cause because research has found elevated HSV-1 titers in affected pati...

PURPOSE To report a rare complication related to epidural analgesia for obstetrics: the association of unilateral trigeminal and facial nerve palsies in a patient with the clinical syndrome of intracranial hypotension. CLINICAL FEATURES A 38-yr-old woman was admitted in pre-term labour (at 35 wk gestation). She was receiving 40 mg methadone po daily for opioid addiction. Epidural analgesia fo...

Rhino-orbital-cerebral zygomycosis afflicts primarily diabetics and immunocompromised individual, but can also occur in normal hosts rarely. We here presented an interesting case of facial nerve palsy and multiple cold abscesses of neck due to rhino-orbital-cerebral zygomycosis in an otherwise healthy man. Although some reports of facial nerve paralysis in conjunction with rhino-orbital-cerebra...