| Bell's palsy (n = 51) | Definite Lyme neuroborreliosis (n = 34) | Possible Lyme neuroborreliosis (n = 17) | p* |
---|---|---|---|---|
Gender, female | 26 (51%) | 13 (38%) | 7 (41%) | Â |
Age | 36 (15-70) | 46 (7-75) | 28 (8-70) | 0.04 |
Tick bite within 3 months | 7 (14%) | 10 (29%) | 4 (24%) | 0.08 |
Symptoms | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   Local pain, affected side of face | 17 (33%) | 17 (50%) | 7 (41%) | 0.43 |
   Radiculitic pain, other location | 5 (10%) | 17 (50%) | 1 (6%) | < 0.001 |
   Local sensibility disturbances | 6 (12%) | 2 (6%) | 2 (12%) | 0.36 |
   Other sensibility disturbances | 0 (0%) | 8 (24%) | 1 (6%) | < 0.001 |
   Other pareses | 0 (0%) | 3 (9%) | 1 (6%) | 0.03 |
   No associated neurogical symptoms | 25 (49%) | 6 (18%) | 7 (41%) |  |
Duration of symptoms before LP, days | 5 (1-90) | 14 (1-75) | 12 (2-120) | Â |
CSF laboratory data | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   Mononuclear cells, no/μL | 2 (0-534) | 165 (32-1044) | 3 (0-41) | < 0.001 |
   Albumin, mg/L | 196 (76-768) | 840 (197-2850) | 204 (66-774) | < 0.001 |