Bell's palsy--is glucocorticoid treatment enough?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Effects of acupuncture for Bell's palsy patients in the acute phase and its impact on facial nerve edema: a study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2024
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2. Efficacy of Manipulative Acupuncture Therapy Monitored by LSCI Technology in Patients with Severe Bell's Palsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020
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3. Hearing loss in peripheral facial palsy after decompression surgery.Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology · 2012
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4. Reactivation of type 1 herpes simplex virus and varicella zoster virus in an immunosuppressed patient with acute peripheral facial weakness.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2012
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5. Neuro-ophthalmologic complications and manifestations of upper and lower motor neuron facial paresis.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2010
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6. [Diseases of the facial nerve].HNO · 2010
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7. Herpes simplex virus type 1 and Bell's palsy-a current assessment of the controversy.Journal of neurovirology · 2010
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8. Bell's palsy: new evidence provides a definitive drug therapy strategy.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2009
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9. Correlates of degree of nerve involvement in early Bell's palsy.BMC neurology · 2009
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10. Bell's palsy: combined treatment of famciclovir and prednisone is superior to prednisone alone.Journal of neurology · 2008
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11. For Bell's palsy, start steroids early; no need for an antiviral.The Journal of family practice · 2008
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12. Idiopathic diaphragmatic paralysis: Bell's palsy of the diaphragm?Lung
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Corrections and comments

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  Is antiviral medication for severe Bell's palsy still useful?2009
• Comment on
  Early treatment with prednisolone or acyclovir in Bell's palsy.2007

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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