Facial weakness in NM disease

Anterior horn cell

  • ALS

  • SMA

  • Kennedy disease

Polycranialradiculoneuropathy

  • Lyme disease

  • Sarcoidosis

  • Neoplastic meningitis

  • Chronic meningitis

  • GBS

  • CIDP

Neuromuscular junction

  • Autoimmune myasthenia gravis

  • Congenital myasthenia gravis

  • LEMS

  • Botulism

Muscle

  • FSHD

  • Congenital myopathies

  • Myotonic muscular dystrophy

  • Inclusion body myositis

  • Ocular pharyngeal distal myopathy.

Facial weakness, ptosis, and ophthalmoparesis in the newborn period are common features in severe congenital myopathy and suggest the possibility of centronuclear or nemaline myopathy.