Bezmiâlem Science (Aug 2015)

Isolated Traumatic Facial Palsy Based on Pinprick to the Tympanic Membrane

  • Selahattin TUĞRUL,
  • Erol ŞENTÜRK,
  • Seda SEZEN GÖKTAŞ,
  • Sabri Baki EREN,
  • Orhan ÖZTURAN

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14235/bs.2015.519
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 51 – 53

Abstract

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Transtympanic penetrating trauma is one of the reasons of rarely seen peripheral facial paralysis. In this case, we observed the traumatic facial paralysis which was formed by the facial canal damage of the dehiscent tympanic segment of the facial nerve as a result of a knitting needle penetrating the tympanic membrane, which was not previously studied in the literature.

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