Saturday, March 17, 2007

Cranial Nerves, Recurrent Paresis

Cranial Nerves, Recurrent Paresis

General: Autosomal recessive; rare, recurrent episodes of Bell palsy and external ophthalmoplegia; lack of iridoplegia distinguishes it from aneurysm.

Ocular: External ophthalmoplegia; third nerve palsy.

Clinical: Bell palsy; diabetes; polycythemia.

Currie S. Familial oculomotor palsy with Bell's palsy. Brain 1980; 93: 193-198.

McKusick VA. Mendelian Inheritance in Man; A Catalog of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders, 12th ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM. McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, February 12, 2007. World Wide Web URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/.

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