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A Case Report of a Child with Bell’s Palsy
- Source :
- Cureus
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Cureus, 2018.
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Abstract
- Bell's palsy is a neuropathy involving the seventh cranial nerve, also known as the facial nerve. It is usually caused by traumatic, infective, inflammatory or compressive conditions on the nerve. Many cases are also with no identifiable etiologies and are classified as idiopathic. Acute inflammation and edema of the cranial nerve seven can lead to the compression and eventual ischemia. The most common viral cause of Bell's palsy is herpes simplex virus but there are several reports of other viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus, human immunodeficiency virus and the hepatitis B virus involved in with similar presentation. Presentation of Bell's palsy in the pediatric population is quite rare and this makes early recognition and proper treatment important. We present a case of a three-year-old male with Bell's palsy.
- Subjects :
- Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
pediatrics
viruses
Infectious Disease
medicine.disease_cause
Virus
bell's palsy
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030225 pediatrics
Bell's palsy
Medicine
030223 otorhinolaryngology
Hepatitis B virus
Palsy
business.industry
General Engineering
medicine.disease
Facial nerve
stomatognathic diseases
Herpes simplex virus
Neurology
Etiology
facial nerve
Presentation (obstetrics)
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21688184
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cureus
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cfe91386b746f1e115280ff48a65ab15