Overview of pediatric peripheral facial nerve paralysis: Analysis of 40 patients

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 193-199

  Özkale, Yasemin ^a   Erol, Ilknur ^a   Saygi, Semra ^a   Yilmaz, Ismail ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bell palsy; Child; Lyme disease; Peripheral facial nerve paralysis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; DOXYCYCLINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADOLESCENT; BELL PALSY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; INFANT; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NEOPLASM; OTITIS MEDIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); AGE; COMPLICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FACIAL PARALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TURKEY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TURKEY;

EID: 84927730989     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073814530497     Document Type: Review

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