Otogenic facial nerve palsy

ABSTRACT

To study the various otogenic conditions responsible for facial nerve palsy in all age groups. Design: It is a retrospective study completed in three years. Settings Department of E. N. T., King Edward Medical College and Mayo Hospital, Lahore. Subjects: We studied twenty two patients with facial nerve paralysis and cause was somehow related with ear. Otological Trauma was found to be the commonest cause [41%]. Inflammatory pathologies were responsible for 36% cases and malignant tumours in 23% cases. Otological conditions must be thoroughly looked in every patient with lower motor neuron type of facial nerve palsy