Bell's palsy in association with a cerebellar arachnoid cyst

Ahmad, Hasham; Hayat, Tayyib T. A.

doi:10.1136/bcr-2015-210370

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“…Within this 3-month-long period, significant increases were found in the patients' axonal degeneration, ipsilateral blinking reflex, eye movement scores and lacrimal control scores. The most significant positive phenomenon was observed in the increase in blinking reflex with the decrease in axonal degeneration in the first and third month (14). Oral corticosteroid is no successful in complete recovery of acute Bell's palsy even though it is high dose and only for a short time (26).…”

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“…In short, adding acupuncture as a supplement to Bell's palsy treatment makes positive contribution to prognosis. As a conclusion, it was generally accepted that corticosteroid and physical therapy exercises should be started within 72 hours following the onset of Bell's palsy in order to decrease the compression resulting from inflammation (1,2,10,14,19).…”

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“…Prednisone with glucocorticoide effect is given in periods of 1 month or 3 months in the acute period (14,18). In 3 month-period, with the decrease in axonal degeneration of the patients as a result of steroid use, positive differences are obtained in ipsilateral blinking reflex (14,19).…”

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“…In 3 month-period, with the decrease in axonal degeneration of the patients as a result of steroid use, positive differences are obtained in ipsilateral blinking reflex (14,19). In some resources, it has been proven that corticosteroid treatment started three days after the onset of Bell's palsy is more effective (18,19).…”

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“…Intolerance to sound (hyperacusis) occurs (2). Decrease in blinking reflex (14), lagophthalmos and keratitis (corneal inflammation) occur (6).…”

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Physiotherapy outweighed multiple therapy methods of bell's palsy: a review study

Calisgan¹,

Şenol²,

Çay³

2017

J Turgut Ozal Med Cent

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Although its etiology is not known, Bell's palsy is commonly based on trauma, infection, nervous damage due to surgery, genetic predisposition, autoimmune disease, temporal bone fracture, cerebellar arachnoid cyst and viral infection associated with vascular ischemia and inflammation. Viral infection due to herpes zoster and herpes simplex is the most common known cause of Bell's palsy. It is seen in about 20-35 out of 100.000 people each year. Its incidence is low in children under the age of 14 and it is more frequent within the range of 15-45 years. It is also known to occur equally in men and women. In the third trimester of pregnancy and postpartum in the first week, its frequency increases 3-fold. Unilateral paralysis, lagophthalmos, keratitis, droop of eyelid and edge of mouth, mouth and eye dryness, conjunctivitis and decreasing sensation and 2/3 taste of luxury in front of lingua are its common symptoms. 3 days from the onset of palsy, patients begin to use corticosteroid and antiviral drugs. 71% of patients had improvement after recovery but 29% of patients were shown to have hemifacial weakness and residual sequela throughout life. Synkinesis is the most common sequela of Bell's palsy. The effects of physiotherapy methods and their different combinations with other methods on prognosis were discussed in the treatment of Bell's palsy.

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