Varicella zoster virus in bell's palsy: a prospective study

Although Bell's palsy is the major cause of acute peripheral facial palsy, its pathogenesis remains unknown. Reactivation of the varicella zoster virus has been implicated as one of the main causes of Bell's palsy, however, studies which investigate the varicella zoster virus reactivation...

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Autores principales: Oliveira Santos, Mônica Alcantara de, Caiaffa Filho, Hélio H., Vianna, Melissa Ferreira, Prado Almeida, Andressa Guimarães do, Lazarini, Paulo Roberto
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Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9442160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20658018
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1808-86942010000300016
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author Oliveira Santos, Mônica Alcantara de
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Lazarini, Paulo Roberto
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description Although Bell's palsy is the major cause of acute peripheral facial palsy, its pathogenesis remains unknown. Reactivation of the varicella zoster virus has been implicated as one of the main causes of Bell's palsy, however, studies which investigate the varicella zoster virus reactivation in Bell's palsy patients are mostly Japanese and, therefore, personal and geographic characteristics are quite different from our population.
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spelling pubmed-94421602022-09-09 Varicella zoster virus in bell's palsy: a prospective study Oliveira Santos, Mônica Alcantara de Caiaffa Filho, Hélio H. Vianna, Melissa Ferreira Prado Almeida, Andressa Guimarães do Lazarini, Paulo Roberto Braz J Otorhinolaryngol Original Article Although Bell's palsy is the major cause of acute peripheral facial palsy, its pathogenesis remains unknown. Reactivation of the varicella zoster virus has been implicated as one of the main causes of Bell's palsy, however, studies which investigate the varicella zoster virus reactivation in Bell's palsy patients are mostly Japanese and, therefore, personal and geographic characteristics are quite different from our population. Elsevier 2015-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9442160/ /pubmed/20658018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1808-86942010000300016 Text en . https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Varicella zoster virus in bell's palsy: a prospective study
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title_sort varicella zoster virus in bell's palsy: a prospective study
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