Acute Peripheral Facial Palsy after Chickenpox: A Rare Association

Chickenpox, resulting from primary infection by the varicella-zoster virus, is an exanthematous disease very common during childhood and with good prognosis. However, serious complications, namely, neurological syndromes, may develop during its course, especially in risk groups, including adolescent...

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Autores principales: Ferreira, Helena, Dias, Ângela, Lopes, Andreia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4095705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25057424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/754390
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author Ferreira, Helena
Dias, Ângela
Lopes, Andreia
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description Chickenpox, resulting from primary infection by the varicella-zoster virus, is an exanthematous disease very common during childhood and with good prognosis. However, serious complications, namely, neurological syndromes, may develop during its course, especially in risk groups, including adolescents. Peripheral facial palsy is a rare neurologic complication that has been previously described. Conclusion. We report the case of a teenager with peripheral facial palsy as a complication of chickenpox, aiming to increase the awareness of this rare association.
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spelling pubmed-40957052014-07-23 Acute Peripheral Facial Palsy after Chickenpox: A Rare Association Ferreira, Helena Dias, Ângela Lopes, Andreia Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Chickenpox, resulting from primary infection by the varicella-zoster virus, is an exanthematous disease very common during childhood and with good prognosis. However, serious complications, namely, neurological syndromes, may develop during its course, especially in risk groups, including adolescents. Peripheral facial palsy is a rare neurologic complication that has been previously described. Conclusion. We report the case of a teenager with peripheral facial palsy as a complication of chickenpox, aiming to increase the awareness of this rare association. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4095705/ /pubmed/25057424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/754390 Text en Copyright © 2014 Helena Ferreira et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute Peripheral Facial Palsy after Chickenpox: A Rare Association
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title_full Acute Peripheral Facial Palsy after Chickenpox: A Rare Association
title_fullStr Acute Peripheral Facial Palsy after Chickenpox: A Rare Association
title_full_unstemmed Acute Peripheral Facial Palsy after Chickenpox: A Rare Association
title_short Acute Peripheral Facial Palsy after Chickenpox: A Rare Association
title_sort acute peripheral facial palsy after chickenpox: a rare association
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4095705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25057424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/754390
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