British Journal of General Practice, December 2014 e807 IntrOduCtIOn Bell’s palsy remains the most common cause of lower motor neurone facial nerve paralysis. While 71% experience complete spontaneous resolution, including 61% who demonstrate a complete palsy and 94% who demonstrate a partial palsy, the remaining 29% exhibit lifelong residual hemifacial weakness.1,2 In 55% of these cases, the d...

Abstract Over the last two decades, senior author (B.H.) has had an extensive experience with facial paralysis reconstruction. During this period, techniques have evolved substantially based on and after observing analyzing surgical outcomes. The purpose of article is to relay lessons learned from 20 years' suggest algorithm. In retrospective study, we included 343 cases cases. Complete were 28...

Frontal nerve injury may result with permanent facial asymmetry. This severely affect social and psychological status. It is known that early repair of frontal more effective than delayed repair. However, it not well defined how the repairment responds to emergency coaptation. A case report a 27 years old male whom had right frontotemporal laceration after trauma has been presented. The patient...

Moebius syndrome, a rare congenital disorder of varying severity, involves multiple cranial nerves and is characterised predominantly by bilateral or unilateral paralysis of the facial and abducens nerves. Facial paralysis causes inability to smile and bilabial incompetence with speech difficulties, oral incompetence, problems with eating and drinking, including pocketing of food in the cheek a...

Reanimation of longstanding facial paralysis is a difficult clinical problem commonly tackled with the method of pedicled muscle flap transfer. The temporalis muscle has been the most popular. In the past, one common problem was that the flap was not long enough to reach parts of the face distant from the affected area. To overcome this disadvantage, we have devised a flap consisting of the ped...

Reanimation procedures may cause changes of autopsy findings. Disregarding this condition may result in erroneous determination of the cause of death. The paper presents a case of a woman, age 77, complaining of general weakness who reported to the outpatient department. Paroxysmal tachycardia was diagnosed on EKG. The patient was referred to the internal ward. The transfer to the hospital was ...