| Title | Clinical advantages of electroneurography in patients with Bell's palsy within two weeks after onset. |
| Author(s) | Tojima H, Aoyagi M, Inamura H, Koike Y |
| Institution | Department of Otolaryngology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Japan. |
| Source | Acta Otolaryngol Suppl 1994.:147-9. |
| MeSH | Action Potentials
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Axons
Child
Electrodiagnosis
Facial Muscles
Facial Nerve
Facial Paralysis
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Nerve Degeneration
Prognosis
Time Factors
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| Abstract | One of the advantages of applying ENoG to patients with Bell's palsy resides in its quantitative determinability for the axons which do not undergo wallerian degeneration. The relation between the ENoG value each day after onset and during the recovery process was investigated in 551 patients with Bell's palsy within 2 weeks after onset in order to consider the diagnostic value of ENoG. It was discovered that ENoG on patients with Bell's palsy makes it possible to reveal the extent of wallerian degeneration by 7 days after the onset of palsy. Accordingly, treatment of Bell's palsy should be administered within the above 7 days; as early as 8 days after onset, exact prognostic diagnosis and judgment of therapeutic effect from ENoG values were concluded to be practicable. |
| Language | eng |
| Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
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| PubMed ID | 8203218 |
