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A case report of facial nerve palsy associated with chickenpox

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Yoshiharu Watanabe ,
Minoru Ikeda ,
Nobuo Kukimoto ,
Mutsumi Kuga  and
Hiroshi Tomita
Yoshiharu Watanabe*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan
Minoru Ikeda
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan
Nobuo Kukimoto
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan
Mutsumi Kuga
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan
Hiroshi Tomita
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan
*
Yoshiharu Watanabe, M.D., Department of Otolaryngology, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173, Japan, 03-3972-1321.
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Abstract

We examined a very unusual patient who developed peripheral facial palsy with chickenpox. A survey of the English literature revealed that eight such patients had been reported, but the period between the appearance of the vesicles of varicella and the facial nerve palsy ranged from five days before to 16 days after the eruption development. We presume that the route of infection was neurogenous in patients who had palsy after the appearance of the eruptions, but haematogenous in patients who had palsy before the appearance of vesicles. The two patients whose infection route was presumed to be haematogenous, had a poor prognosis.

Keywords

Facial palsyChickenpoxVaricella-zoster virus
Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 108 , Issue 8 , August 1994 , pp. 676 - 678
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1994

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