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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Facial nerve palsy
Unilateral
Vascular: brainstem infarction
Tumours: brainstem, cerebellopontine angle (acoustic neuroma), meningeal infiltration, parotid gland
Trauma or surgery of the face
Inflammation: sarcoidosis (meningeal inflammation), multiple sclerosis (demyelination in brainstem)
Infection (petrous bone): middle ear infection or herpes zoster
Bell's palsy (idiopathic)

Bilateral
Sarcoidosis
Myasthenia gravis
Muscular dystrophy
Motor nurone disease
Infections: Lyme disease, HIV
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Congenital facial diplegia
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