Bilateral Facial Nerve Palsy in a Child: When the Smile Returns

Bilateral facial nerve palsy (FNP) is an extremely rare clinical condition. Different from unilateral FNP, because of idiopathic or Bell’s palsy in the majority of cases, bilateral FNP is most often correlated to an underlying medical condition, which can be congenital, neurological, infectious, neo...

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Autores principales: Messana, Tullio, Lombardi, Francesca, Canini, Andrea, Russo, Angelo, Landini, Chiara, Curatolo, Arcangela, Pini, Antonella, Ghizzi, Chiara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30937102
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_58_18
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author Messana, Tullio
Lombardi, Francesca
Canini, Andrea
Russo, Angelo
Landini, Chiara
Curatolo, Arcangela
Pini, Antonella
Ghizzi, Chiara
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Lombardi, Francesca
Canini, Andrea
Russo, Angelo
Landini, Chiara
Curatolo, Arcangela
Pini, Antonella
Ghizzi, Chiara
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description Bilateral facial nerve palsy (FNP) is an extremely rare clinical condition. Different from unilateral FNP, because of idiopathic or Bell’s palsy in the majority of cases, bilateral FNP is most often correlated to an underlying medical condition, which can be congenital, neurological, infectious, neoplastic, traumatic, or metabolic. We describe the case of an 8-year-old girl with bilateral facial paralysis because of Epstein–Barr virus infection with late diagnosis and therapy. We discuss the differential diagnosis hypothesis, focusing on the different outcome and recovery times in relation to the timing of treatment.
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spelling pubmed-64136042019-04-01 Bilateral Facial Nerve Palsy in a Child: When the Smile Returns Messana, Tullio Lombardi, Francesca Canini, Andrea Russo, Angelo Landini, Chiara Curatolo, Arcangela Pini, Antonella Ghizzi, Chiara J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Bilateral facial nerve palsy (FNP) is an extremely rare clinical condition. Different from unilateral FNP, because of idiopathic or Bell’s palsy in the majority of cases, bilateral FNP is most often correlated to an underlying medical condition, which can be congenital, neurological, infectious, neoplastic, traumatic, or metabolic. We describe the case of an 8-year-old girl with bilateral facial paralysis because of Epstein–Barr virus infection with late diagnosis and therapy. We discuss the differential diagnosis hypothesis, focusing on the different outcome and recovery times in relation to the timing of treatment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6413604/ /pubmed/30937102 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_58_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Pini, Antonella
Ghizzi, Chiara
Bilateral Facial Nerve Palsy in a Child: When the Smile Returns
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title_sort bilateral facial nerve palsy in a child: when the smile returns
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30937102
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_58_18
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