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- Title
Intraparotid facial nerve schwannoma: management decision based on facial nerve function. The Mayo Clinic Experience.
- Authors
Gross, Brian C; Olsen, Kerry D.; Moore, Eric J.
- Abstract
The article presents a study on the diagnosis and management of intraparotid facial nerve schwannomas (IPFNS). The study used retrospective review of all cases of IPFNS at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota which was approved by the Mayo Clinic Institutional Review Board. It concludes that resection and repair with nerve grafting when facial nerve function must be considered when tumors extend proximally into the stylomastoid foramen.
- Subjects
FACIAL nerve; SURGICAL excision; CRANIAL nerves; NEUROSURGERY; CLINICAL medicine
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 2011, Vol 121, Issue S5, pS279
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/lary.22235