Approximately 5% of all facial paralyses are of neoplastic origin while approximately 80% represent idiopathic or Bell's palsies. Whenever a tumor is suspected accurate testing is imperative; testing aimed at the nerve trunk both above and especially below the stilomastoid foramen. In fact, occult neoplasms are much more frequently located within the parotid. The present work presents a case where facial palsy was associated with profound ipsilateral hearing loss. Diagnostic efforts were, therefore, focussed on the cerebello-pontine angle and the Fallopian canal, thus delaying recognition of its real etiology (a mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid).

Possibilità di errori diagnostici nelle paralisi del 7° n.c. .

STOMEO, Francesco
1989

Abstract

Approximately 5% of all facial paralyses are of neoplastic origin while approximately 80% represent idiopathic or Bell's palsies. Whenever a tumor is suspected accurate testing is imperative; testing aimed at the nerve trunk both above and especially below the stilomastoid foramen. In fact, occult neoplasms are much more frequently located within the parotid. The present work presents a case where facial palsy was associated with profound ipsilateral hearing loss. Diagnostic efforts were, therefore, focussed on the cerebello-pontine angle and the Fallopian canal, thus delaying recognition of its real etiology (a mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid).
1989
Stomeo, Francesco
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