Subjects with Bell's palsy and healthy individuals were treated with moxibustion thermal stimulation on the Hegu (LI4) acupoint; an infrared thermal imaging system was used to observe facial-temperature changes. Bell's palsy patients developed low or high temperatures at the affected side, with poor symmetry. Healthy people showed high temperatures on the forehead, medial angle of the eye, nasa...

Scrub typhus is widely distributed across the Asia-Pacific region, Taiwan included. The clinical manifestations and complications of scrub typhus vary and the illness ranges in severity from mild to fatal. The etiology of facial nerve palsy varies and infectious agents have been associated with this condition. Rickettsiae species have, however, rarely been reported as the causative agents. We r...

Introduction. Bilateral facial nerve palsy (FNP) is a rare condition, representing less than 2% of all cases of FNP. Majority of these patients have underlying medical conditions, ranging from neurologic, infectious, neoplastic, traumatic, or metabolic disorders. Objective. The differential diagnosis of its causes is extensive and hence can present as a diagnostic challenge. Emergency physician...

objective facial paralysis in children is very often idiopathic and isolated facial nerve palsy, resulting from leukemic infiltration is a rare occurrence. here we present the case of a 14 year-old boy with acute lymphobastic leukemia, who first presented with isolated right side peripheral facial nerve paralysis and was initially diagnosed with bell's palsy. conclusion the presence of bell's p...

Ann Saudi Med 28(2) March-April 2008 www.saudiannals.net 135 Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (MRS) is a rare granulomatous disease characterized by orofacial edema, facial nerve palsy, and furrowed tongue (lingua plicata).1,2 This is the classic triad which defines the syndrome, although it is accepted that the presence of two manifestations or one with a granulomatous cheilitis in the eyelid bio...

A girl is described with bilateral retinal colobomata, Fallot's tetralogy, unilateral choanal atresia, abnormalities of the external ears, bilateral sensorineural deafness, a unilateral facial nerve palsy, and a tracheo-oesophageal fistula. A clinical diagnosis of the CHARGE association was made. She had an apparently balanced whole arm translocation involving chromosomes 6 and 8. Parental kary...

The patient was first seen at Red Cross Children’s Hospital in September 2001, aged 3 years and 2 months. He was living with his unemployed single-parent mother in an informal settlement. He had bilateral suppurative submandibular lymphadenitis, requiring incision and drainage. Two weeks after discharge, pus swabs revealed a positive culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The local TB clinic w...

Dear Editor, A previously well, developmentally normal 6-yearold Indian boy was admitted for evaluation of fever. He was fi rst seen at our outpatient service at the onset of fever. At that time, upper respiratory tract symptoms of rhinorrhoea and nasal congestion together with bilateral non-purulent conjunctivitis suggested a viral aetiology. He was initially treated symptomatically but empiri...

Leptospirosis, a disease of great significance in tropical countries, presents commonly as a biphasic illness with acute febrile episode in the first phase followed by a brief afebrile period and then by the second phase of fever with or without jaundice and renal failure. However, it has varied manifestations and unusual clinical features ascribed to immunological phenomena can occur due to th...

Rhino-orbital-cerebral zygomycosis afflicts primarily diabetics and immunocompromised individual, but can also occur in normal hosts rarely. We here presented an interesting case of facial nerve palsy and multiple cold abscesses of neck due to rhino-orbital-cerebral zygomycosis in an otherwise healthy man. Although some reports of facial nerve paralysis in conjunction with rhino-orbital-cerebra...