Antiviral treatment for Bell's palsy (idiopathic facial paralysis)

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Gagyor, Ildiko ^a   Madhok, Vishnu B ^b   Daly, Fergus ^c   Somasundara, Dhruvashree ^b   Sullivan, Michael ^d   Gammie, Fiona ^b   Sullivan, Frank ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c FRONTIER SCIENCE SCOTLAND LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FAMCICLOVIR; PLACEBO; VALACICLOVIR; 2 AMINOPURINE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; VALINE;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; BELL PALSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYNKINESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; COMPLICATION; DRUG COMBINATION; HERPES SIMPLEX; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY;

2-AMINOPURINE; ACYCLOVIR; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BELL PALSY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; PREDNISOLONE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALINE;

EID: 84957412326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001869.pub6     Document Type: Review

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