Bell's palsy - DocNeuro https://docneuro.com/tag/bells-palsy/ Up-to-date concepts in neurology Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:20:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Facial nerve palsy https://docneuro.com/facial-nerve-palsy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=facial-nerve-palsy Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:20:50 +0000 https://docneuro.jz7sunfr-liquidwebsites.com/facial-nerve-palsy/ It is important to be able to distinguish central from peripheral causes of facial paralysis. Facial paralysis is caused by lesions in the pathway starting in the motor cortex and ending in the facial nerve (cranial nerve 7). The pathway is shown in the figure below. Motor cortex sends fibers to the 7th nerve nucleus […]

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]]> Bell’s Palsy https://docneuro.com/bells-palsy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bells-palsy Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:55:08 +0000 https://docneuro.jz7sunfr-liquidwebsites.com/bells-palsy/ An idiopathic palsy of the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII) which results in ipsilateral weakness of the facial muscles. Clinical Presentation of Bell’s Palsy Patients present with weakness and sometimes complete paralysis of the facial musculature on the side involved This can manifest as: Loss of the nasolabial fold and dropping of the corner of […]

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