These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Recurrent facial paresis with facial neurinoma].
    Author: Scholz E, Langer J, Begall K.
    Journal: Laryngorhinootologie; 2007 Jun; 86(6):443-7. PubMed ID: 17219336.
    Abstract:
    PATIENT: A clinical case of a 49-year-old man is described who presented with a right facial paresis for 4 weeks. The patient had undergone a decompression of facial nerve and a radical mastoidectomy elsewhere in 1998 because of a facial paresis and acute mastoiditis. In the following years a complete right facial paresis occurred several times improving with prednisolone. In addition to topognostic examinations a high resolution computed tomography of the temporal bone was made. CT showed a mass in the right tympanic cavity with close contact to the ossicular chain. Diagnostic tympanotomy disclosed a tumor of the tympanic segment of the facial nerve. Pathological examination indicated a diagnosis of neurinoma with an Antoni B architecture. In a second operation the tumor was resected totally and a facial nerve reconstruction was performed by a greater auricular nerve interposition graft. Seven month postoperative beginning nerve reinnervation was seen proceeding continually until the control examination after 1 1/2 year. DISCUSSION: Facial neurinoma are a rare course of facial paresis. There are no specific symptoms. That's why the diagnosis is difficult. But it is necessary to think of with differential diagnosis of facial paresis.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]