Facial paralysis occurs when a nerve that controls your facial movements becomes damaged. As a result, a portion of your face may feel weak, or you may be unable to move it. Some types of facial ...

Paralysis of the facial nerve may arise due to infection, inflammation, surgery, trauma, and tumors. Damage to this nerve, which is the seventh cranial nerve, may be uni- or bilateral. It results in ...

Facial nerve palsy arises due to damage to the seventh cranial nerve. This damage may be due to injury, inflammation, infection, trauma or tumors. The resulting clinical presentation is drooping of ...

The term signe de cils was introduced in the late 19th century and is attributed to Achille Souques, one of the most ...

Imagine waking up unable to smile, blink, or raise one eyebrow. Your face feels heavy, lopsided, perhaps even numb. Water dribbles from the corner of your mouth when you drink. This alarming ...

A 66-year-old man with right-hand dominance and a known history of hypertension and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with a one-day history of abrupt-onset diplopia and right ...

Facial paralysis is a medical condition that entails being unable to move the muscles on a person's face and is a multifaceted condition that comes with emotional, psychological, and socio-economic ...