Congenital facial nerve aplasia: MR depiction of a rare anomaly

We report two infants presenting with unilateral congenital facial palsy since birth. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in both the cases revealed complete unilateral aplasia of facial nerve. To our knowledge, this is the first reported MR depiction of nonsyndromic isolated facial nerve aplasia. Imag...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Ishan, Verma, Ashish, Ojha, Ritu, Aggarwal, Priyanka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
Materias:
Head & Neck
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28104950
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.195791
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Sumario:We report two infants presenting with unilateral congenital facial palsy since birth. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in both the cases revealed complete unilateral aplasia of facial nerve. To our knowledge, this is the first reported MR depiction of nonsyndromic isolated facial nerve aplasia. Imaging features and the pertinent anatomy is discussed along with a brief review of literature.

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