[Intraoperative monitoring of the facial nerve : Vestibular schwannoma surgery].

CONCLUSION: Identification and mapping of the facial nerve in the surgical field can be reliably achieved by direct electrical stimulation; potentially dangerous events can be identified in real time by the free-running EMG and the processed EMG, and almost in real time by facial nerve evoked potentials. Intraoperative prognostics are hampered by false-positive results with all available methods and have limited reliability.
PMID: 28271169 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: HNO - March 9, 2017 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: HNO Source Type: research