Spontaneous return of facial motion following seventh cranial nerve resection
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in The Laryngoscope
- Vol. 91 (2) , 211-215
- https://doi.org/10.1288/00005537-198102000-00005
Abstract
Four patients who had undergone operative procedures, wherein substantial segments of the VIIth cranial nerve had been resected, experienced some degree of reanimation of the muscles of expression despite the fact that no restitutive measures were employed. The site of insult was in the face in two; the temporal bone in one; and the fourth occurred in the cerebellopontine angle.Teeth‐clenching and grimacing were practiced before a mirror by each subject, and one wonders if “re‐education” of dormant trigeminal nerve fibers might have facilitated the rehabilitation which was achieved.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Anastomosis between the two facial nervesThe Laryngoscope, 1975
- FACIAL NERVE ANASTOMOSISThe Laryngoscope, 1973
- Spontaneous Return and Facial Nerve Grafting: Trigeminal Nerve SignificanceJAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, 1963
- Acoustic NeuromaJournal of Neurosurgery, 1960
- Spontaneous Return of Function Following Surgical Section or Excision of the Seventh Cranial Nerve in the Surgery of Parotid TumorsAnnals of Surgery, 1957