Facial paralysis due to nerve damage
Bell's Palsy & Other Facial Nerve Problems: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, and Prognosis
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Facial paralysis is a loss of facial movement due to nerve damage. Your facial muscles may appear to droop or become weak. It can happen on one or both.
Facial nerve paralysis is a common problem that involves the paralysis of any structures innervated by the facial nerve. The pathway of the facial nerve is long and relatively convoluted, so there are a number of causes that may result in facial nerve paralysis. The facial paralysis can follow immediately the trauma due to direct damage.
Description:To review the functional recovery in a cohort of patients with facial nerve paralysis FNP due to infective cause. Retrospective review based on patients identified from a prospectively maintained database of patients with FNP. The case notes of identified patients were reviewed. The patients were identified from a database of patients with FNP. One hundred twenty of the patients identified as having FNP due to an infectious disease caused by herpes zoster oticus were excluded from the study. The remaining 30 patients were included in the study.
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