Facial Nerve

Question 1

Recurrent Unilateral Facial Nerve Paralysis - Differential Diagnosis

Answer 1

I. Infectious:
1) Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome
2) Herpes Simplex Virus
3) HIV
4) Lyme disease
II. Inflammatory:
1) Sarcoidosis
2) Sjogren’s syndrome
3) GPA/Wegener’s Granulomatosis
4) Systemic lupus erythematosus
III. Neoplastic:
1) Schwannoma
2) Parotid gland neoplasms
3) Leukemia/Lymphoma
IV. Structural:
1) Traumatic neuroma
V. Other:
1) Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome