Prognosis of seventh nerve palsy following removal of large acoustic tumors
- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) in Journal of Neurosurgery
- Vol. 47 (1) , 31-34
- https://doi.org/10.3171/jns.1977.47.1.0031
Abstract
Before the advent of microsurgery for acoustic tumors, it was accepted that the majority of 7th nerves would be lost during the removal of large tumors. It is now possible to preserve these attenuated 7th nerves, even with very large tumors. Postoperative facial palsy may be present even with an anatomically intact 7th nerve, but experience demonstrated that recovery will ultimately occur. Eight of 9 patients with this situation regained facial function, although in some the 1st clinical evidence of recovery did not occur for 1 yr.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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