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The authors present a clinically feasible method for this purpose.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this prospective study, the authors included 30 patients who underwent surgery at the International Neuroscience Institute between May 2014 and February 2017 for resection of VS. The patients\u2019 taste sensation was examined using taste strips. Lacrimation was tested using the Schirmer I test. The clinical evaluation was performed before surgery and repeated at 2 weeks and at 6 months after surgery as well as during the follow-up, which extended up to 2 years. The authors tested the correlation between the NI dysfunctions and the House-Brackmann grade of facial nerve palsy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The taste sensation was lost on the side of surgery in 2 patients (6.6%) and decreased in 4 patients (13.3%). The disturbance of taste sensation was not statistically correlated with dysfunctions of the motor portion of the facial nerve. The taste impairment resolved in 4 patients within 6 months, but 2 patients suffered from persistent loss of the taste sensation on the side of surgery during the follow-up. In 23 patients (76.6%), the baseline lacrimation was lower on the side of surgery, and it was significantly correlated with outcome for dysfunctions of the motor portion of the facial nerve. During the follow-up, baseline lacrimation improved in correlation with the improvement in the dysfunctions of the motor portion of the facial nerve. None of the patients reported change in salivation or nasal secretion.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The NI can be affected after VS surgery. The disturbance of baseline lacrimal secretion was correlated with dysfunctions of the motor portion of the facial nerve. However, the disturbance of the taste sensation was not correlated with the grade of facial nerve palsy. Dysfunctions of the NI should be evaluated and separately reported while analyzing facial nerve outcome after VS surgery.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2018.4.jns1818","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,7]],"date-time":"2018-09-07T10:01:50Z","timestamp":1536314510000},"page":"1-6","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Nervus intermedius dysfunctions after vestibular schwannoma surgery: a prospective clinical study"],"prefix":"10.3171","author":[{"given":"Hussam","family":"Metwali","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Katja","family":"Kniese","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Babak","family":"Kardavani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Venelin","family":"Gerganov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Madjid","family":"Samii","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"key":"b1","series-title":"Acta Neurochir (Wien)","first-page":"1263","article-title":"The nervus intermedius as a variable landmark and critical structure in cerebellopontine angle surgery: an anatomical study and classification","volume":"154","author":"Alfieri A","year":"2012","unstructured":"Alfieri A, Fleischhammer J, Peschke E, Strauss C: The nervus intermedius as a variable landmark and critical structure in cerebellopontine angle surgery: an anatomical study and classification. 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