Facial Nerve Paralysis Due to Intra-aural Hyalomma Tick Infestation

Facial nerve paralysis due to intra-aural Hyalomma tick infestation.

We present the case of a 33 year-old man from a village of the north-eastern part of central Anatolia admitted to the otolaryngology department of Yeditepe University Hospital with right facial asymmetry and pain on the right ear. A tick of the genus Hyalomma was observed in the external auditory canal of the right ear and it was removed with fine cup forceps under otomicroscopy. We are of the ...

Isolated facial palsy due to intra-aural tick (ixodoidea) infestation

Acute labyrinthitis secondary to aural tick infestation.

Aural tick usually menisfests as intolerable otalgia. The severity of pain makes the patient to seek early treatment. Other uncommon symptoms include inner ear dyfunctions such as vertigo and tinnitus. The diagnosis is established by clinical examinaion either by otoscopic evidence of the tick itself, or its fecal remnant. We report a case of patient with acute labyrinthitis features with concu...

Massive tick (Ixodes holocyclus) infestation with delayed facial-nerve palsy.

NEUROMUSCULAR PARALYSIS and death up to four days after removal of ticks is well documented and apparently unique to Australian tick envenomation. 1-5 Generally, obvious symptoms and signs are present at the time of tick removal. In contrast, onset of local neurotoxicity many hours after tick removal has not, to my knowledge, been reported previously in the medical literature. A 48-year-old man...

P148: Facial Nerve Paralysis Secondary to Odontogenic Infection

Peripheral facial nerve paralysis is the most common form of motor cranial neuropathy. Several factors can cause Bell’s palsy such as vascular ischemia, intracranial lesions, iatrogenic damage, etc. Treatment relies on diagnosing the causing factor, varying from steroids to surgical techniques. Since there has been but few reports of facial nerve paralysis caused by dental infection, odon...