Facial nerve palsy

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2025/5

Alla faccia di Bell: un caso clinico di paralisi bilaterale in una paziente di sei anni

Di Febo CM

2025/5 — pag. 107-111 — DOI

Bilateral facial palsy (BFP) is an uncommon condition characterised by the involvement of the opposite side within 30 days from the onset in the first side. If paralysis occurs simultaneously on both sides, it is termed simultaneous BFP. Otherwise, i...

Neurofibromatosi e ipertensione arteriosa: alla ricerca della causa

Ricci S, Spagnoli C, Caponi L, Pugliese F

2024/10 — pag. 661-663 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 6-year-old girl with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who was diagnosed with significant arterial hypertension during a routine check-up. After initial ineffective therapy and inconclusive investigations, an angio-CT r...

Paralisi periferica monolaterale del VII nervo cranico da riattivazione di virus varicella zoster: la sindrome di Ramsay Hunt

Pasquali E, Addeo AM, Masi A, Romeo C, Marchetti F

2024/4 — pag. 64-67 — DOI

Ramsay Hunt syndrome is the second leading cause of peripheral facial palsy in children, and it is due to reactivation of Varicella Zoster Virus. A characteristic feature of this syndrome is the triad of ipsilateral facial palsy, otalgia and vesicula...

Paralisi del facciale, eruzione cutanea auricolare e otalgia: la sindrome di Ramsay Hunt

De Buglio A, Lauriola RS.

2023/3 — pag. 187 — DOI

The Authors describe the case of an adolescent presenting with intense ear pain and facial palsy finally diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome....

Un’otite da far girare la testa

E. Conversano

2020/3 — pag. 61-61

Infezioni con il nervoso: Borrelia

A. Gozzi, C. Po’, L. Grazian, S. Martelossi

2019/4 — pag. 255-257

Approccio pratico al bambino con paralisi periferica del nervo faciale

G. Cozzi, E. Aru, A. Velkoski, A. Skabar, E. Barbi

2015/10 — pag. 639-643

Acute peripheral facial nerve palsy in children has an incidence of 20 new cases per 100,000 children/year. The diagnosis is essentially clinical. The etiology of the condition remains unknown in most cases. Useful blood tests are full blood count ...