FAMILIAL ALTERNATING BELLS-PALSY WITH OTH ER CRANIAL NERVE PALSY

We report 2 cases of the same family who presented with alternating re current episodes of peripheral facial palsy, associated in one case wi th ipsilateral trigeminal neuropathy and preceded in the other case by incomplet Miller-Fisher syndrom. All laboratory and radiological inve stigations were normal except the electrodiagnostic tests. The etiopat hogenetic mecanisms implied and the distinction between familial recur rent Bell's palsies and recurrent cranial nerve palsies are discussed.