Isolated Lower Motor Neuron Facial Nerve Palsy in a Patient of Varicella: A Case Report

Varicella or chickenpox is usually regarded as a self-limiting disease, but occasionally it may lead to irreversible neurological complications. Isolated lower motor neuron facial nerve palsy is a rare complication of varicella, with very few cases reported from the Indian subcontinent. We report on...

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Autores principales: Choudhary, Sanjiv, Srivastava, Ankita, Narula, Soumya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7580461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32417865
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4849
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author Choudhary, Sanjiv
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description Varicella or chickenpox is usually regarded as a self-limiting disease, but occasionally it may lead to irreversible neurological complications. Isolated lower motor neuron facial nerve palsy is a rare complication of varicella, with very few cases reported from the Indian subcontinent. We report one such case, where the patient developed facial palsy after healing of cutaneous lesions and recovered completely with oral corticosteroids.
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spelling pubmed-75804612020-11-30 Isolated Lower Motor Neuron Facial Nerve Palsy in a Patient of Varicella: A Case Report Choudhary, Sanjiv Srivastava, Ankita Narula, Soumya JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Case Report Varicella or chickenpox is usually regarded as a self-limiting disease, but occasionally it may lead to irreversible neurological complications. Isolated lower motor neuron facial nerve palsy is a rare complication of varicella, with very few cases reported from the Indian subcontinent. We report one such case, where the patient developed facial palsy after healing of cutaneous lesions and recovered completely with oral corticosteroids. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2020-04 2020-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7580461/ /pubmed/32417865 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4849 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Isolated Lower Motor Neuron Facial Nerve Palsy in a Patient of Varicella: A Case Report
title Isolated Lower Motor Neuron Facial Nerve Palsy in a Patient of Varicella: A Case Report
title_full Isolated Lower Motor Neuron Facial Nerve Palsy in a Patient of Varicella: A Case Report
title_fullStr Isolated Lower Motor Neuron Facial Nerve Palsy in a Patient of Varicella: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Isolated Lower Motor Neuron Facial Nerve Palsy in a Patient of Varicella: A Case Report
title_short Isolated Lower Motor Neuron Facial Nerve Palsy in a Patient of Varicella: A Case Report
title_sort isolated lower motor neuron facial nerve palsy in a patient of varicella: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7580461/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4849
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