CLINICAL-CAUSES OF UNILATERAL FACIAL PALSY

SUMMARY

UMN lesions:
1. Any frontal lobe lesions (tumor, stroke, trauma).

LMN lesions:
1. Pontine lesions - syringobulbia, tumors, vascular lesions, MS.
2. CP angle - tumors (acoustic neuroma, meningioma), meningitis.
3. Petrous temporal bone - Bell's palsy (most common, >80%), fracture, meningioma, Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, otitis media.

4. Parotid - tumor, sarcoidosis.

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