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Medical Clinics of North America, 2018
Patients afflicted with facial paralysis suffer significant physical and psychosocial effects that can lead to depression and social isolation. Timely diagnosis and initiation of appropriate therapy are keys to achieving good outcomes in the management of facial paralysis.
James A, Owusu +2 more
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Patients afflicted with facial paralysis suffer significant physical and psychosocial effects that can lead to depression and social isolation. Timely diagnosis and initiation of appropriate therapy are keys to achieving good outcomes in the management of facial paralysis.
James A, Owusu +2 more
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Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 2008
Emotions are communicated through facial expression. Happiness, confusion, and frustration can be expressed with a slight smile, eyebrow shift, or wrinkled nose. Injury to the facial nerve and subsequent inability of perform volitional mimetic movement can provoke anxiety.
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Emotions are communicated through facial expression. Happiness, confusion, and frustration can be expressed with a slight smile, eyebrow shift, or wrinkled nose. Injury to the facial nerve and subsequent inability of perform volitional mimetic movement can provoke anxiety.
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Understanding facial nerve paralysis
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2013Facial nerve paralysis has many causes and can be acute or chronic. Understanding the signs and symptoms, performing a careful patient evaluation, and obtaining appropriate diagnostic testing can help guide clinicians and improve outcomes.
Jaime, Matthaeus +3 more
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Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1990
Bell's palsy, an idiopathic facial nerve palsy, is the most common cause for acute facial nerve paralysis. Bell's palsy is not synonymous with facial nerve paralysis but is a diagnosis of exclusion for acute onset of idiopathic facial nerve paralysis. The differential diagnosis for facial nerve paralysis should be considered to correctly evaluate and ...
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Bell's palsy, an idiopathic facial nerve palsy, is the most common cause for acute facial nerve paralysis. Bell's palsy is not synonymous with facial nerve paralysis but is a diagnosis of exclusion for acute onset of idiopathic facial nerve paralysis. The differential diagnosis for facial nerve paralysis should be considered to correctly evaluate and ...
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On Peripheral Facial Nerve Paralysis
Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1972Well-selected cases of facial nerve paralysis may be favorably influenced by decompression. The transcutaneous nerve excitability test is very important for the selection of these cases. The arguments in favor of surgery in well-selected cases of Bell's paralysis are discussed.
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Iatrogenic Facial Nerve Paralysis
Surgical Clinics of North America, 1980The commonest causes of iatrogenic injury to the facial nerve are discussed. Facial paralysis may occur despite, or because of, the best surgical technique. Its incidence is minimized if early identification of the nerve is a primary concern of the surgeon.
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MANAGEMENT OF FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS
Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 1999Facial paralysis is a dreaded complication of parotid surgery. It can lead to a variety of troubling symptoms in the patient, such as ocular problems and nasal obstruction. It can also have a significant emotional impact on the patient because of facial disfigurement and difficulties with communication, eating, and drinking.
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Experimental Facial Nerve Paralysis
Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1972Facial nerve paralysis was produced by inoculating rabbits with herpes simplex virus. Inoculations were made through the stylomastoid foramen into the facial nerve canal, the subarachnoid space, and the common carotid artery. Subarachnoid and common carotid artery inoculation caused encephalomeningitis, but facial nerve paralysis failed to develop ...
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Surgical Treatment Of The Facial Nerve In Facial Paralysis
Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 1997This article discusses the surgery for acute facial paralysis of idiopathic, traumatic, infectious, and neoplastic etiologic agents. Indications, results, and details of surgical techniques of facial nerve exploration, decompression, rerouting, and repair are provided.
S I, Angeli, E, Chiossone
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Transtemporal facial nerve schwannoma without facial nerve paralysis
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 2001Facial schwannoma is a relatively rare but well documented lesion, presenting either as a mass or with facial nerve symptoms. In this report, an extensive facial schwannoma, extending from the brain stem to the periphery with minimal facial nerve symptoms and normal facial function is presented.
J E, Fenton +3 more
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