Bulbar palsy

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• Synonyms

  • Medullary palsy
  • Medulla lesion
  • Rhombencephalic lesion

• Causes

  • Motor neurone disease
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Vertebrobasilar infarct
  • Friedrich ataxia
  • Arnold-Chiari malformation
  • Syringobulbia
  • Poliovirus
  • Neurosyphilis
  • Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis
  • Behcet disease
  • Kennedy disease

• Effects

  • Aspiration pneumonia
  • Dysphagia
  • Oscillopsia
  • Nystagmus
  • Cerebellar ataxia
  • Aspiration of gastric contents
  • Drooling
  • Nasal speech
  • Dysarthria
  • Wasting of tongue
  • Tongue fasciculation
  • Absent gag reflex
  • Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy
  • Central hypoventilation

• Parents

  • Cranial nerve palsy

• Description

  • "Lower motor neurone lesion of X-XII"