Overview of Pediatric Peripheral Facial Nerve Paralysis: Analysis of 40 Patients

Peripheral facial nerve paralysis in children might be an alarming sign of serious disease such as malignancy, systemic disease, congenital anomalies, trauma, infection, middle ear surgery, and hypertension. The cases of 40 consecutive children and adolescents who were diagnosed with peripheral facial nerve paralysis at Baskent University Adana Hospital Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology Unit between January 2010 and January 2013 were retrospectively evaluated. We determined that the most common cause was Bell palsy, followed by infection, tumor lesion, and suspected chemotherapy toxicity. We noted that younger patients had generally poorer outcome than older patients regardless of disease etiology. Peripheral facial nerve paralysis has been reported in many countries in America and Europe; however, knowledge about its clinical features, microbiology, neuroimaging, and treatment in Turkey is incomplete. The present study demonstrated that Bell palsy and infection were the most common etiologies of peripheral facial nerve paralysis..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Journal of child neurology - 30(2015), 2, Seite 193-199

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Özkale, Yasemin [VerfasserIn]
Erol, İlknur [Sonstige Person]
Saygı, Semra [Sonstige Person]
Yılmaz, İsmail [Sonstige Person]

Links:

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Themen:

Bell palsy
Child
Facial Paralysis - complications
Facial Paralysis - diagnosis
Lyme disease
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases - complications
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases - diagnosis
Peripheral facial nerve paralysis

doi:

10.1177/0883073814530497

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1957662875