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==Evaluation== | ==Evaluation== | ||
* Forehead "sparing" | Central Process | ||
* | * Forehead "sparing" or normal muscle tone of the forehead | ||
Peripheral Process | |||
* Weakness of forehead muscles | |||
Central and Peripheral | |||
* Unable to close eye | |||
* Loss of nasolabial fold | |||
* Assymmetric smile | |||
==Management== | ==Management== | ||
Revision as of 02:08, 21 September 2018
Background
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Facial paralysis
- Bell's palsy
- CVA
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Tick paralysis
- Herpes zoster oticus (Ramsay Hunt syndrome)
- CNS tumor
- Acoustic neuroma or other cerebellopontine angle lesions
- Meningioma
- Cerebellar pontine angle
- Facial nerve schwannoma
- Parotid
- Sarcoma
- Anesthesia nerve blocks
- Cerebral Aneurysms (vertebral, basilar, or carotid)
Evaluation
Central Process
- Forehead "sparing" or normal muscle tone of the forehead
Peripheral Process
- Weakness of forehead muscles
Central and Peripheral
- Unable to close eye
- Loss of nasolabial fold
- Assymmetric smile