title: [Idiopathic recurrent facial palsy].
abstract: We report a 34 year old female patient with six episodes of idiopathic right facial palsy, all of wich had total recovery. Idiopathic recurrent facial palsy is a rare entity, with a few cases in the literature. Recurrent facial palsy is usually in the setting of a family history and have both autosomal dominant and recessive inheritance or in the setting of hypertension and diabetes. A review of the literature does not report a previous case with six episodes.
authors.affiliation: Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Scola Yurrita
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ramírez Calvo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Scola Pliego
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence