CClinical studies and pre-clinical animal models on facial nerve preservation, reconstruction, and regeneration following cerebellopontine angle tumor surgery-a systematic review and future perspectives

• Main Authors: Hostettler, Isabel C., Jayashankar, Narayan, Bikis, Christos, Wanderer, Stefan, Nevzati, Edin, Karuppiah, Ravindran, Waran, Vicknes, Kalbermatten, Daniel, Mariani, Luigi, Marbacher, Serge, Guzman, Raphael, Madduri, Srinivas, Roethlisberger, Michel
• Format: Article
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2021
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RD Surgery
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/34518/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Background and purpose: Tumorous lesions developing in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) get into close contact with the 1st (cisternal) and 2nd (meatal) intra-arachnoidal portion of the facial nerve (FN). When surgical damage occurs, commonly known reconstruction strategies are often associated with...