[Similar and different features of recurrent homo- and contralateral facial neuritis].

Repeated facial neuritis can be due to diverse etiological factors, such as body cooling, infections, and vascular disorders. In a number of cases these etiological factors cannot be identified. The basis of the pathogenesis of the repeated facial neuritis consists in changed immunobiological reactivity of the body and an anatomic predisposition. On a large number of observations the clinical course and the outcome of repeated homo- and contralateral facial neuritis are described, and for the first time the resemblances and differences between them are characterized. It has been found that in cases of repeated homolateral neuritis the prognosis is worse than in cases of contralateral ones.