Year: 1996 Vol. 62 Ed. 6 - (7º)
Artigos Originais
Pages: 500 to 502
Simultaneous Bilateral Facial and Cocleovestibular Palsy in Lyme Disease.
Author(s):
Sulene Pirana*,
Ricardo Ferreira Bento**,
Priscila Bogar***,
José Alexandre Medicis da Silveira****,
Natalino Hajime Yoshinari*****.
Keywords: Sudden deafness, facial palsy, borreliosis
Abstract:
Lyme's Borreliosis is a zoonosis; the main neurologic manifestation is facial palsy. The incidente of this manifestation in other countries is 7 to 20%. The authors report a case of bilateral facial palsy and deafness caused by borrelia in Brazil; this is the first case report with sorologic confirmation . They also discuss the clinical, epidemiologic and sorologic manifestations of Lyme's Borreliosis.
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