Severe Hemifacial Spasm is a Predictor of Severe Indentation and Facial Palsy after Microdecompression Surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: Spasm severity does not predict surgical outcomes, but it can be used as a marker of pathologic compression in MVD for HFS, and be considered as a predictor of delayed facial palsy after MVD. PMID: 29856152 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Clinical Neurology - Category: Neurology Tags: J Clin Neurol Source Type: research