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CAPTAIN EDWARD M. GLASSBURN

Arch Otolaryngol. 1945;41(3):218-219.

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The occurrence of facial paralysis in the course of acute otitis media is a rare and alarming development. The preoperative incidence is reported by Kettel¹ to be 0.5 per cent.

The possible causes of the paralysis advanced by Brunner² are as follows: (1) infection of the nerve by contact; (2) compression of the nerve by hyperemic blood vessels which accompany the nerve; (3) a lymphangitis in the facial nerve canal, or (4) toxic paresis of vasomotor nerves and consequent disturbances in the nutrition of the nerve.

Lederer and Hollender³ in their text and Brunner² divide cases of facial paralysis occurring in the course of acute otitis media into two groups: (1) those in which the paralysis appears in the first days of the acute otitis, in which the prognosis is good and the treatment that of simple otitis media; (2) those in which the paralysis appears during or after the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

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