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Causes of Failure (Four Case Reports)

James A. Crabtree, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1972;95(5):395-399.

Abstract
Four patients who had decompression of the facial nerve received no benefit from initial surgery. Reexploration revealed two traumatic neuromas, one case of fibrosis around the nerve, and carcinoma from a parotid tumor invading the fourth.

Author Affiliations
Los Angeles

From the Otologic Medical Group Inc, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 15, 1971.

Read before the International Symposium on Facial Nerve Surgery, Osaka, Japan, Sept 29, 1970.

Reprint requests to Los Angeles Foundation of Otology, 2130 W Third St, Los Angeles 90057 (Dr. Crabtree).

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