acute idiopathic peripheral facial paralysis (bell's palsy) is the most common disorder of the facial nerve. most patients recover completely, although some have permanent disfiguring facial weakness. many studies have attempted to identify an infectious etiology for this disease. although the cause of bell's palsy remains unknown, recent studies suggest a possible association with herpes simpl...

Otitis media (OM) is a common pathology in peadiatric cases. Serious and life threatening complications including petrositis, epidural abscess, subdural abscess, cerebral abscess and meningitis, may be seen with OM. However they become rarely seen nowadays due to the improvement of antimicrobial therapy. Beside this, they may be silent but with dangerous evolution . In 1904, Giuseppe Gradenigo ...

purpose: congenital third nerve palsy was generally thought to exist in isolation without associated abnormalities. in this report, we present a case of congenital third nerve palsy in osteogenesis imperfecta. methods: a 6-month-old girl with osteogenesis imperfceta presented with ptosis and large incomitant exotropia in left eye (le) at birth. ocular examination revealed total third nerve pals...

one of the important causes of strabismus in all ages is extraocular muscles paralysis due to 3rd, 4th and 6th cerebral nerve palsies. exact and on-time treatment can result in improvement of deviation, am-blyopia and abnormal head posture. we studied epidemiological characteristics of extraocular muscles paralysis. this retrospective study performed on 131 subjects (58% male). records of patie...

footdrop is a relatively common deficit among the neurological disorders, which has different causes with various levels of involvement in neuromuscular system, including central nervous system (brain cortex, spinal cord), fifth lumbar root, peripheral nerves and muscles. peroneal nerve injury at the fibular head has been reported to the most common cause of foot drop, which can be due to infar...

objective facial paralysis in children is very often idiopathic and isolated facial nerve palsy, resulting from leukemic infiltration is a rare occurrence. here we present the case of a 14 year-old boy with acute lymphobastic leukemia, who first presented with isolated right side peripheral facial nerve paralysis and was initially diagnosed with bell's palsy. conclusion the presence of bell's p...

This clinical study was carried out to compare the rate of nerve complications after anterior and posterior approaches in forearm both bone fractures in adults. For this purpose, 310 patients with forearm both bone fractures operated during 1997-2002 in Kerman Shahid Bahonar Hospital were studied. From these patients, 121 cases werefemale and 189 cases were male and they were aged from 12 to 67...

conclusions complete rupture of the facial nerve is challenging and the treatment is surgery, which requires careful planning. introduction facial paralysis is a devastating condition with profound functional, aesthetic and psychosocial consequences. tumors within or outside the skull, bell’s palsy and trauma are the most common causes of facial paralysis in adults. case presentation our patien...

purpose: to evaluate the results of jensen procedure in correction of ocular deviation in patients with complete sixth nerve palsy. methods: hospital records of patients with complete sixth nerve palsy who underwent jensen procedure at khalili hospital of shiraz during 1993-2002 were studied and results of the operation were evaluated. results: of 18 patients including 14 male and 4 females, 19...