Acute Nose-Blow Palsy: A Pneumatic Variant of Sudden Facial Paralysis

To the Editor: The February 26, 1987, issue of the Journal¹ contains a report on surfer's neuropathy — a variant of several distinctive compression mononeuropathies. I recently witnessed another unusual mononeuropathy. The patient, a 17-year-old healthy highschool student who plays the French horn, had been having cold symptoms, with ringing and fullness in his right ear, for a few days. He had intentionally occluded the left external ear canal with his finger and blown his nose, rather forcefully, to try to relieve pressure in the right ear. This caused an immediate right-sided drooping of the mouth and an absence of. No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.