Melkersson's Syndrome

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RECURRENT cranial-nerve palsies have been described in such disorders as diabetes mellitus, migraine, demyelinating diseases, aneurysms and myasthenia gravis. A lesser known entity is recurrent paralysis of the seventh cranial nerve, associated with facial edema, first reported by Melkersson1 in 1928. Since that time other reports of this entity have appeared under the eponym of Melkersson's syndrome.2 3 4 Recently, we studied a patient who had suffered 10 well documented episodes of Bell's palsy involving each side of the face and who also gave a history of repeated episodes of facial edema. This case is presented to call attention to this unusual . . .

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