| acute facial nerve palsy in children: how often is it lyme borreliosis? | acute facial nerve palsy in children may be caused by infection by borrelia burgdorferi, but the incidence of facial nerve palsy and the proportion of facial nerve palsy caused by lyme borreliosis may vary considerably between areas. furthermore, it is not well known how often facial nerve palsy caused by lyme borreliosis is associated with meningitis. in this population-based study, children admitted for acute facial nerve palsy to stavanger university hospital during 9 y from 1996 to 2004 were ... | 2007 | 17464865 |