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.
BT - ORL; journal for oto-rhino-laryngology and its related specialties C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9646312?dopt=Abstract DA - 1998 Jul-Aug DO - 10.1159/000027599 IS - 4 J2 - ORL J. Otorhinolaryngol. Relat. Spec. LA - eng N2 -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.
PY - 1998 SP - 227 EP - 9 T2 - ORL; journal for oto-rhino-laryngology and its related specialties TI - Bilateral facial nerve palsy: four case reports. VL - 60 SN - 0301-1569 ER -