@article{19473,
  keywords = {Adult, Aged, Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts, Electromyography, Facial Paralysis, Female, Humans, Leprosy, Tuberculoid, Lyme Disease, Male, Polyradiculoneuropathy},
  author = {Arias G and Nogués J and Mañós M and Amilibia E and Dicenta M},
  title = {Bilateral facial nerve palsy: four case reports.},
  abstract = {<p>Bilateral facial nerve palsy is relatively uncommon and may occur in association with a variety of neurological, infectious, neoplastic or degenerative disorders. Presentation is made of 4 cases of bilateral facial diplegia due to a refractory anemia with excess of blasts, a Lyme disease and a tuberculoid leprosy. In one of these patients the cause of bilateral seventh-nerve palsy was unknown (Bell's palsy). Facial palsy returned to normal after treatment with steroids in 3 patients. The patient with myelodysplastic syndrome did not show any improvement and died 6 months after diagnosis.</p>},
  year = {1998},
  journal = {ORL; journal for oto-rhino-laryngology and its related specialties},
  volume = {60},
  pages = {227-9},
  month = {1998 Jul-Aug},
  issn = {0301-1569},
  doi = {10.1159/000027599},
  language = {eng},
}