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Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 674981, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/674981
Case Report

Familial Bell’s Palsy: A Case Report and Literature Review

Mark Kubik, Liliana Robles, and Doris Kung

Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Received 29 April 2012; Accepted 9 July 2012

Academic Editors: J. C. Kattah, V. Rajajee, and Y. Wakabayashi

Copyright © 2012 Mark Kubik et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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