Temporal lobe retraction provides better surgical exposure of the peri-geniculate ganglion for facial nerve decompression via transmastoid approach

Yonsei Medical Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1482-1487

  Kim, Myung Woo ^a   Ryu, Nam Gyu ^a   Lim, Byung Woo ^a   Kim, Jin ^a  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Decompression; Facial nerve; Facial paralysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BELL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FACIAL NERVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE RETRACTION; TINNITUS; TRANSMASTOID APPROACH; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FACIAL PARALYSIS; GENICULATE GANGLION; MASTOID; NEUROSURGERY; PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL BONE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; BELL PALSY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GENICULATE GANGLION; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MASTOID; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL BONE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84986879941     PISSN: 05135796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2016.57.6.1482     Document Type: Article

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