TY - JOUR
T1 - Bilateral Bell’s palsy in a young female
T2 - a rare case report
AU - Kumar, Mathangi
AU - Acharya, Shruthi
AU - Vineetha, Ravindranath
AU - Pai, Keerthilatha M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the patient and the patient?s parents for their cooperation and Department of Neurology for their support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Bell’s palsy is described as a type of facial paralysis, which is unilateral in 70% of the cases. Bell’s palsy accounts for about 23% of bilateral facial paralysis. Here, we present a rare case of bilateral Bell’s palsy in a 15-year-old female who developed sudden facial weakness with no associated symptoms. The patient was subjected to thorough clinical, laboratory, and necessary radiological investigations. As there was no conclusive evidence from any of the investigations, this could be a case of idiopathic bilateral Bell’s palsy. This is the first ever case of bilateral Bell’s palsy in a young female which has been reported in the Indian population.
AB - Bell’s palsy is described as a type of facial paralysis, which is unilateral in 70% of the cases. Bell’s palsy accounts for about 23% of bilateral facial paralysis. Here, we present a rare case of bilateral Bell’s palsy in a 15-year-old female who developed sudden facial weakness with no associated symptoms. The patient was subjected to thorough clinical, laboratory, and necessary radiological investigations. As there was no conclusive evidence from any of the investigations, this could be a case of idiopathic bilateral Bell’s palsy. This is the first ever case of bilateral Bell’s palsy in a young female which has been reported in the Indian population.
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U2 - 10.15386/mpr-1389
DO - 10.15386/mpr-1389
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101403841
SN - 2602-0807
VL - 94
SP - 118
EP - 120
JO - Medicine and Pharmacy Reports
JF - Medicine and Pharmacy Reports
IS - 1
ER -