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Bell's palsy: symptoms preceding and accompanying the facial paresis.
Trial report in TheScientificWorldJournal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Development of the Korean Medicine Core Outcome Set for Facial Palsy: herbal medicine treatment of patients with facial palsy in primary clinics.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
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- Central Facial Nervous System Biomolecules Involved in Peripheral Facial Nerve Injury Responses and Potential Therapeutic Strategies.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Newly identified axon types of the facial nerve unveil supplemental neural pathways in the innervation of the face.Journal of advanced research · 2023Article
- Ocular and Palpebral Manifestations of Facial Palsy: An Epidemiologic Descriptive Study.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
- Clinical Prognostic Indicators in Predicting the Outcome in Patients with Bell's Palsy: A Descriptive, longitudinal Study from Puducherry, South India.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2022Article
- Concurrent Bell's Palsy and Facial Pain Improving with Multimodal Chiropractic Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review.The American journal of case reports · 2022Review
- Economic Impact of Diagnostic Imaging in the Workup of Uncomplicated Bell's Palsy.Journal of neurological surgery. Part B, Skull base · 2022Article
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- Influence of Mirror Therapy (Specular Face Software) on Electromyographic Behavior of the Facial Muscles for Facial Palsy.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Bell's Palsy-Retroauricular Pain Threshold.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
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- Recurrent Bell's palsy: outcomes and correlation with clinical comorbidities.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2019Article
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Abstract
This individual prospective cohort study aims to report and analyze the symptoms preceding and accompanying the facial paresis in Bell's palsy (BP). Two hundred sixty-nine patients affected by BP with a maximum delay of 48 hours from the onset were enrolled in the study. The evolution of the facial paresis expressed as House-Brackmann grade in the first 10 days and its correlation with symptoms were analyzed. At the onset, 136 patients presented postauricular pain, 114 were affected by dry eye, and 94 reported dysgeusia. Dry mouth was present in 54 patients (19.7%), facial pain, hyperlacrimation, aural fullness, and hyperacusis represented a smaller percentage of the reported symptoms. After 10 days, 39.9% of the group had a severe paresis while 10.2% reached a complete recovery. Dry mouth at the onset was correlated with severe grade of palsy and was prognostic for poor recovery in the early period. These outcomes lead to the deduction that the nervus intermedius plays an important role in the presentation of the BP and it might be responsible for most of the accompanying symptomatology of the paresis. Our findings could be of important interest to early address a BP patient to further examinations and subsequent therapy.
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