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Unique Case of Eleven Bell's Palsy Episodes

2001; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 111; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3109/00207450108986552

1563-5279

Egon Kurča, M Drobný, Milan R. Voško, Vladimír Nosáľ, Jana Straková, Milan Grofik, Arlene Goldman,

Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments

AbstractBell's palsy (BP) is a peripheral facial nerve paralysis of unknown etiology. It is not a life-threatening condition; however, incomplete recovery may leave an individual stigmatized functionally, occupationally as well as socially. Recurrent paralyses are seldom, noted in 7–8% of all BP cases. More than two BP relapses are even less frequent. Adour et al. (1977) reported only two patients with four BP episodes from 1700 patients. Only one patient with more than four BP recurrences in the group containing 2414 BP cases was reported by Yanagihara et al. (1984). The highest reported number of BP recurrences in the accessible literature has been nine. We are presenting an unusual patient who suffered a total of eleven relapses of an idiopathic facial nerve palsy. Description of the case along with review of the relevant literature are discussed.Key Words: facial nervebell's palsyrecurrence