13 - Causes of bilateral facial palsy

ETIOLOGIES ASSOCIATED WITH BILATERAL FACIAL PALSIES

            ( MAY BE SIMULTANEOUS or DELAYED )

1. Guillain-Barre syndrome
2. Leukemia
3. Leprosy
4. Lime disease
5. Isoniazid
6. Infectious mononucleosis
7. Myasthenia gravis
8. Myotonic dystrophia
9. Meningitis
10. Moebius syndrome
11. Malaria
12. Periarteritis nodosa
13. Porphyrias
14. Poliomyelitis
15. Postvaccination neuropathy
16. Syphilis
17. Bell palsy
18. Basilar skull fracture
19. Bulbar palsies
20. Botulism
21. Osteopetrosis
22. Diabetes mellitus
23. Sarcoidosis ( Heerfordt syndrome )