Spontaneous Bilateral Facial Paralysis Secondary to Metastatic Breast Cancer.

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Spontaneous Bilateral Facial Paralysis Secondary to Metastatic Breast Cancer. Via ear nose throat Related Articles Spontaneous Bilateral Facial Paralysis Secondary to Metastatic Breast Cancer. Ear Nose Throat J. 2021 Jan 25;:145561320982693 Authors: King J, Virani FR, Thomas R, Squires L Abstract Sudden onset, bilateral facial paralysis is a rare clinical entity, representing less than 2% of all diagnoses of facial nerve paralysis. The differential for these patients is necessarily broad and includes numerous etiologies. Metastatic breast carcinoma to the bilateral parotid glands is also exceedingly rare with only 2 reported case reports noted in the literature, neither of which demonstrated facial nerve paralysis. Here, we report the only known occurrence of a patient presenting with synchronous bilateral facial nerve paralysis secondary to metastatic breast carcinoma to the bilateral parotid glands. This exceedingly rare clinical presentation was further confounded by the presence of autoimmune antibodies, highlighting the importance of the diagnostic process and maintaining broad clinical suspicion. PMID: 33491485 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.