Surgery
Signs and symptoms of Bell's palsy
Bell's palsy causes sudden weakness in your facial muscles. This makes half of your face appear to droop. Your smile is one-sided, and your eye on that side resists closing.
Aug 29, 2017
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News tagged with facial nerve
Surgery
Get ready: Your future surgery may use an automated, robotic drill
A computer-driven automated drill, similar to those used to machine auto parts, could play a pivotal role in future surgical procedures. The new machine can make one type of complex cranial surgery 50 times faster than standard ...
May 1, 2017
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Surgery
Nerve transposition technique successful in facial paralysis
(HealthDay)—After facial paralysis, mobilization and transposition of the intratemporal segment of the facial nerve for end-to-side coaptation to the hypoglossal nerve can restore facial tone and symmetry, according to ...
Jun 25, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Toxic secretions from intracranial tumor damage the inner ear
A new study at Massachusetts Eye and Ear showed that in some cases of vestibular schwannoma, a sometimes-lethal tumor often associated with neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2), secretions from the tumor contain toxic molecules that ...
Dec 22, 2015
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Surgery
Recovery pattern is useful tool after CPA tumor resection
(HealthDay)—For patients who develop facial paralysis after cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumor resection, the recovery pattern in the early postoperative period is useful for selecting patients for facial reanimation surgery, ...
Dec 2, 2015
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Surgery
Northwestern Medicine surgeons first to treat brain tumor using adaptive hybrid technology
It started with numbness on the left side of his face. A few months later, Steve Mores couldn't feel his tongue or chew on the left side of his mouth. TV commercials featuring food or even being in a grocery store made him ...
Dec 2, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
First Canadian Bell palsy guideline
The first Canadian guideline for Bell palsy, facial weakness or paralysis caused by facial nerve damage, is aimed at helping physicians manage and treat patients during the acute phase as well as recovery. The guideline, ...
Jun 16, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Key regulator of blood vessel formation could be a potential new target for cancer drugs
During formation of the vascular system, successively smaller blood vessels sprout from existing ones to form networks of capillaries in patterns uniquely adapted to the function of the organ they enter. This process, called ...
Aug 30, 2013
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Neuroscience
Developing our sense of smell: Biologists pinpoint the origin of olfactory nerve cells
When our noses pick up a scent, whether the aroma of a sweet rose or the sweat of a stranger at the gym, two types of sensory neurons are at work in sensing that odor or pheromone. These sensory neurons are particularly interesting ...
Mar 25, 2013
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Surgery
Secondary facelift achieves good results, reports plastic and reconstructive surgery
Performed an average of a decade after initial facelift surgery, a "secondary" facelift can achieve similarly lasting results with a low complication rate, according to a paper in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive ...
Feb 28, 2013
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