Traumatic facial paralysis, causes and management

ABSTRACT

A series of 13 cases of traumatic facial paralysis is presented. The cases are almost equally distributed between temporal bone fractures and iatrogenic causes. Damage is seen in supralabyrinthine part and genicular area in cases with temporal bone trauma. Damage is common at the junction between the horizontal and vertical parts in iatrogenic cases occurring as a complication of mastoid surgery. In follow up of 3 years all showed recovery up to a varying degree except 2 cases