Causes of Ocular and facial palsies

This section discusses 30 medical conditions causing Ocular and facial palsies. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.

Common Causes: Ocular and facial palsies

Some of the possible common medical causes of Ocular and facial palsies may include:

• Encephalomyelitis
• Infarction
• Hemorrhage
• Neoplasm
• Abscess
• Aneurysm
• Infectious meningitis
• Endocrine (thyroid orbitopathy)
• Multiple sclerosis
• Horner's syndrome
• Lateral medullary syndrome

Other Causes: Ocular and facial palsies

Some of the less common causes of Ocular and facial palsies may include:

• Carcinomatous/lymphomatous/leukemic infiltration
• Granulomatous inflammation
• Cavernous sinus fistula
• Cavernous sinus thrombosis
• Ischemia
• Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
• Fascicular orbital portion
• Inflammatory
• Herpes virus
• Herpes zoster (Ramsay-Hunt syndrome)
• Lyme disease
• Otitis media or cholesteatoma
• Trauma
• Guillain Barré
• Parotid gland tumours
• Melkersson's syndrome
• Eclampsia
• Sjogren's syndrome
• HIV

More Information About Ocular and facial palsies

• Ocular and facial palsies: Introduction
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• Travel-related causes of Ocular and facial palsies
• Diabetes-related causes of Ocular and facial palsies

List of 30 causes of Ocular and facial palsies

This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Ocular and facial palsies in our database from various sources.

• Abscess
• Aneurysm
• Carcinomatous/lymphomatous/leukemic infiltration
• Cavernous sinus fistula
• Cavernous sinus thrombosis
• Eclampsia
• Encephalomyelitis
• Endocrine (thyroid orbitopathy)
• Fascicular orbital portion
• Granulomatous inflammation
• Guillain Barré
• Hemorrhage
• Herpes virus
• Herpes zoster (Ramsay-Hunt syndrome)
• HIV
• Horner's syndrome
• Infarction
• Infectious meningitis
• Inflammatory
• Ischemia
• Lateral medullary syndrome
• Lyme disease
• Melkersson's syndrome
• Multiple sclerosis
• Neoplasm
• Otitis media or cholesteatoma
• Parotid gland tumours
• Sjogren's syndrome
• Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
• Trauma

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