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We reviewed 57 patients less than sixteen years old with peripheral facial paraplysis who visited our out-patient office in the period between 1984 and April 1994. Table 1 shows the details of facial palsy.
According to measurement of varicella zoster virus and herpes simplex virus (HSV) antibody titre (EIA or ELISA) in 37 subjects symptomatically diagnosed as Bell's palsy, the following results were obtained: these contained 6 patients with zoster sine herpete (ZSH) and 2 cases of HSV involvement, and one of two was likely to be the primary infection of HSV.
Furthermore, in the incidence of Bell's palsy, Hunt's syndrome and ZSH, there was no significant difference between children of this study and adults with facial palsy which we reported in 1992.
