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Puiu F. Nisipeanu, MD
Department of Neurology Ichilov Hospital Tel Aviv, Israel

Arch Neurol. 1984;41(2):134.

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To the Editor.

—I read with interest the report by Spector and Stark.¹ I wish to comment on only the clinical dictum described by the authors: "a lesion of the seventh cranial nerve proximal to the geniculate ganglion invariably produces a loss of taste appreciation and tearing in addition to the peripheral facial palsy." This is not always true. A lesion of the motor nucleus of the seventh cranial nerve, as in acute anterior poliomyelitis or X-linked recessive bulbospinal neuronopathy, is usually not accompanied by problems in taste and/or tearing.

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