Neuropathy of a facial nerve. An etiology, a pathogenesis. An otitis, fracture of a temporal bone, a tumour of a cerebellar angle; the idiopathic form (Bell's paralysis) bind to a frigorism. A mechanical compression at secondary forms, an edema and an ischemia in cases of a paralysis of Bell.

Signs, current. Bell's paralysis is preceded usually with a pain in the field of a mastoid behind which was acutely the unilateral paralysis of a mimic musculation develops. The patient cannot lift a brow, close an eye (lagophthalmia), and at a denudation of a teeth the stomatic cleft is drawn in the healthy party. Depending on a level of a lesion of a nerve at a paralysis of facial muscles there can be an allocation of tears. Restoration in opportunities lasts from several weeks about several months, at older persons - till 1-2 years. The paralysis can become complicated a contracture of the amazed muscles.