Temporal bone rhabdomyosarcoma presenting as acute peripheral facial nerve paralysis

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 743-745

  Reid, Samuel R ^a   Hetzel, Thomas ^a   Losek, Joseph ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bell palsy; Facial nerve paralysis; Rhabdomyosarcoma

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYRINGOTOMY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TEMPORAL BONE; VITAL SIGN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TEMPORAL BONE; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 33750270178     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pec.0000236834.69688.8f     Document Type: Article

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