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Jan 2020
8m 11s

Facial Nerve Palsy

THOMAS WATCHMAN
About this episode

In this episode I cover facial nerve palsy.

If you want to follow along with written notes on facial nerve palsy go to https://zerotofinals.com/medicine/neurology/facialnervepalsy/ or the neurology section in the Zero to Finals medicine book.

This episode covers pathophysiology, presentation, types, diagnosis and management of facial nerve palsy. We talk about upper versus lower motor neurone lesions.

The audio in the episode was expertly edited by Harry Watchman.

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