Facial diplegia: a clinical dilemma.
Bilateral facial paralysis is a rare clinical entity and presents as a diagnostic challenge. Unlike its unilateral counterpart facial diplegia is seldom secondary to Bell's palsy. Occurring at a frequency of 0.3% to 2% of all facial palsies it often indicates ominous medical conditions. Guillian-Barre syndrome needs to be considered as a differential in all given cases of facial diplegia where timely treatment would be rewarding. Here a case of bilateral facial palsy due to Guillian-Barre syndrome with atypical presentation is reported.
Debaprasad
D
Chakrabarti
Mukut
M
Roy
Amrit K
AK
Bhattacharyya
D000328:Adult; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male