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We enjoyed the article by Arriaga and Chen in the May issue of the ARCHIVES.¹ As we are currently working on a similar retrospective study for comparison of facial nerve outcomes between the retrosigmoid approach and the translabyrinthine approach in patients with medium-size tumors, we wanted to reanalyze their data. Our analysis using the authors' data provided in the article revealed a significant difference (P<.05) in facial nerve functions at "discharge from the hospital." This is contrary to what the authors stated in their article. The bottom half of Table 1 presents our analysis of facial nerve function at discharge according to Table 2 of the article.

Table appears in full text version. Reanalysis of Facial Nerve Outcomes at Hospital Discharge*

In addition, we believe that the Fisher exact test might be a better test for analysis as sample sizes were less than 5 in many situations. The Fisher exact test also revealed significant . . . [Full Text of this Article]