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Facial Nerve Paralysis Causes
Aka: Facial Nerve Paralysis Causes, Cranial Nerve 7 Paralysis Causes, Bell's Palsy Differential Diagnosis
- See Also
- Bell's Palsy
- Cranial Nerve 7
- Causes: General
- Bell's Palsy is idiopathic
- Below are listed other causes of Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Causes: Common
- Peripheral Nerve causes (Facial Muscle paralysis with forehead affected)
- Lyme Disease
- Otits Media or Mastoiditis
- Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
- Autoimmune Polyneuropathy (e.g. Guillain-Barre Syndrome, typically bilateral)
- Head or Neck Mass Lesion (e.g. Cholesteatoma)
- Central/Supranuclear causes (Facial Muscle paralysis with forehead spared)
- Cerebral mass lesion (e.g. tumor)
- Cerebrovascular Accident (typically with ipsilateral Hemiparesis or Hemiplegia)
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Causes: Trauma
- Cortical injury
- Temporal BoneFracture
- Brain Stem injury
- Penetrating middle ear injury
- Barotrauma
- Altitude paralysis
- Scuba Diving
- Causes: Endocrine
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Hyperthyroidism
- Pregnancy
- Hypertension
- Alcohol Abuse (Alcoholic Neuropathy)
- Causes: Infection
- Malignant Otitis Externa (skull base Osteomyelitis)
- Acute or Chronic Otitis Media
- Gradenigo's Syndrome (CN V or CN VI)
- Mastoiditis
- Varicella Zoster Virus (Chicken Pox)
- Herpes Zoster Oticus (Ramsey-Hunt Syndrome)
- Herpetic Vesicles at auricle and external canal
- Influenza Vaccine and Influenza
- Lyme Disease
- HIV Infection
- Parotitis
- Meningitis or Encephalitis
- Mumps
- Mononucleosis
- Leprosy
- Coxsackievirus infection
- Syphilis
- Tuberculosis
- Botulism
- Mucormycosis
- Causes: Tumor
- Facial Nerve neuroma
- Cholesteatoma
- Glomus jugulare tumor
- Primary Temporal Bone tumors
- Meningiomas
- Hemangioblastoma
- Hemangioma
- Pontine glioma
- Parotid tumor
- Causes: Birth
- See Facial Nerve Injury from Birth Trauma
- Trauma (forceps delivery)
- Molding
- Congenital Facial Palsy
- Mobius syndrome
- Cardiofacial syndrome
- Causes: Toxic
- Thalidomide
- Tetanus
- Diphtheria
- Carbon Monoxide
- Lead Intoxication
- Causes: Idiopathic
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Sarcoidosis
- Familial Bell's Palsy
- Causes: Iatrogenic
- Antitetanus serum
- Vaccine treatment for Rabies
- Mandibular block Anesthesia
- Head and neck surgery
- References
- Zalvan (1999) Consultant 39(1):39-48
- Gilden (2004) N Engl J Med 351:1323-31 [PubMed]
- Holland (2004) BMJ 329:553-7 [PubMed]
- Tiemstra (2007) Am Fam Physician 76:997-1002 [PubMed]