VIIth Nerve Palsy

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VIIth Nerve Palsy

Review VIIth Cranial Nerve

Examination

• unable to close eyes
  • Bell's phenomenon - eyeball turns up
• unable to raise eyebrows
• unable to blow out cheeks
• unable to show teeth

Causes

Unilateral

Bilateral

• Nucleus

  • Vascular

  • Demyelinating

• Infranuclear

  • Guillain-Barré

  • Sarcoidosis

• Muscular

  • Myasthenia Gravis

  • Myotonic Dystrophy

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