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Improved microsurgical techniques and intraoperative facial nerve monitoring have decreased the complication rate and increased the likelihood of normal to near-normal postoperative facial function. Nevertheless, the impairment most frequently reported by patients as an adverse effect of surgery continues to be facial nerve paralysis. In addition, patient assessment has provided a different, less optimistic view of outcome. The authors evaluated the extent of facial function, timing of facial nerve recovery, patients' perceptions of this recovery and function, and the prognostic value of intraoperative facial nerve monitoring following resection of large vestibular schwannomas; they then analyzed these results with respect to different surgical approaches.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p content-type=\"fine-print\">\n                    <jats:italic>Methods.<\/jats:italic>\n                    The authors retrospectively reviewed a database of 67 patients with 71 vestibular schwannomas measuring 3 cm or larger in diameter. The patients had undergone surgery via translabyrinthine, retrosigmoid, or combined approaches. Clinical outcomes were analyzed with respect to intraoperative facial nerve activity, responses to intraoperative stimulation, and time course of recovery.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p content-type=\"fine-print\">Eighty percent of patients obtained normal to near-normal facial function (House\u2014Brackmann Grades I and II). Patients' perceptions of facial nerve function and recovery correlated well with the clinical observations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p content-type=\"fine-print\">\n                    <jats:italic>Conclusions.<\/jats:italic>\n                    Trends in the data lead the authors to suggest that a retrosigmoid exposure, alone or in combination with a translabyrinthine approach, offers the best chance of facial nerve preservation in patients with large vestibular schwannomas.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3171\/jns.2005.102.4.0643","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,13]],"date-time":"2009-05-13T14:06:30Z","timestamp":1242223590000},"page":"643-649","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":89,"title":["Resection of large vestibular schwannomas: facial nerve preservation in the context of surgical approach and patient-assessed outcome"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"102","author":[{"given":"Douglas 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