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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-52010862017-01-19 Congenital facial nerve aplasia: MR depiction of a rare anomaly Kumar, Ishan Verma, Ashish Ojha, Ritu Aggarwal, Priyanka Indian J Radiol Imaging Head & Neck 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5201086/ /pubmed/28104950 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.195791 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Congenital facial nerve aplasia: MR depiction of a rare anomaly
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title_fullStr Congenital facial nerve aplasia: MR depiction of a rare anomaly
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title_short Congenital facial nerve aplasia: MR depiction of a rare anomaly
title_sort congenital facial nerve aplasia: mr depiction of a rare anomaly
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28104950
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