We report on a male infant with congenital hypothyroidism owing to athyreosis occurring with the CHARGE association (bilateral papillary coloboma, congenital heart disease, dysmorphic ears, sensorineural deafness, psychomotor retardation, cryptorchidism, facial palsy, and vesicoureteral reflux). The coexistence of these two disorders has not been described previously.

Background and Importance: The development of C5 root palsy is a well-known potential complication of cervical spine surgeries for the correction of cervical spondylotic myelopathy. It typically occurs unilaterally but on extremely rare occasions it might occur as a bilateral anomaly. The value of intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring in detection of iatrogenic acute versus delayed onset C...

simultaneous proptosis and facial palsy as the clinical presentation of childhood acute myeloid leukaemia (aml) is very rare. to date, no case have been reported anywhere to the best of our knowledge. extra medullary leukemic deposits or granulocytic sarcoma (gs) is a rare manifestation in about 3% of childhood aml, 9.3% of gs manifested as orbit deposits causing proptosis in one or both eyes. ...

     Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, demyelinating, neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) of unknown etiology. Isolated oculomotor nerve palsy is found rarely in children with MS. We present a case of MS in 10-year-old boy, who had bilateral ptosis associated with medial gaze restriction. The extraocular muscle examination demonstrated bilateral adduction pa...

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease affecting primarily the skin, peripheral nerves, respiratory system and the eyes. Leprosy induces various types of clinical presentation affecting the patient's immune response. Cell-mediated immunity is considered to be the crucial defence against the disease and the magnitude of this immunity defines the extent of the disease. The article presents two c...

An early feature of Lyme disease is the distinctive erythema chronicum migrans. Bateman and Lawton described nine patients with Lyme disease who had unilateral or bilateral facial nerve palsies, and in three of these the palsy was associated with this skin lesion.' The induration and erythema seen in my patients may have been those of erythema chronicum migrans. Seven of the patients described ...

Various terms have been applied to this condition: Mobius's syndrome, congenital facial diplegia, congenital oculo-facial paralysis, nuclear agenesis, and congenital nuclear aplasia. It was originally described by von Graefe (1880), Harlan (1881), and Chisolm (1882). M6bius (1892) collected 43 cases of congenital and acquired cranial nerve palsies and classified them into six groups. One group ...

introduction: tuberculous otitis media (tom) is an uncommon, insidious, and frequently misdiagnosed form of tuberculosis (tb). in particular, tom is usually secondary to direct transmission from adjacent organs, while the primary form has been rarely reported. the main aim of treatment is to start the patient on an antitubercular regime and early surgical intervention to decompress the facial n...

BACKGROUND Data on incidence of facial palsy is generally lacking in Nigeria. OBJECTIVE To assess six years' incidence of facial palsy in Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital (MMSH), Kano, Nigeria. METHOD The records of patients diagnosed as facial problems between January 2000 and December 2005 were scrutinized. Data on diagnosis, age, sex, side affected, occupation and causes were obtaine...