Journal Reviews

Recurrent facial palsy

4 September 2023 | | Otology | Alternative palsy, Ipsilateral palsy, Mean age, Ramsay Hunt syndrome, Recurrent facial nerve paralysis, Zoster sine herpete

Recurrent facial palsy is relatively rare, and its clinical features are not well known. The authors set out to investigate this further by undertaking a retrospective study of patients with recurrent facial palsy over a 14-year period. Only Bell’s palsy...

How the world sees facial palsy patients

1 November 2016 | | facial nerve paralysis, morbidity, social perception

This paper from Australia gives an insightful perspective on the impact of facial paralysis on patients, and may explain the well-documented poor quality of life scores in this patient group, particularly those ‘successfully reconstructed’ with surgery. It explores how the...