title: [Intraoperative brainstem auditory evoked potential in the microvascular decompression of the 5th and 7th cranial nerves].
abstract: Microvascular decompression techniques are rational surgical procedures for treating trigeminal neuralgia and facial hemispasm, with results ranging from good to excellent in 90% of cases. Among the most frequent complications recorded in the literature concerning these decompressions, impairment of the facial nerve and auditory nerve account for 5% to 10% due to mechanical traction and/or vascular injury. The peroperative use of early brain-stem evoked potentials (BAEP) was performed on 17 patients in a series of 325 decompressions of the trigeminal nerve, and on 17 patients in a series of 25 decompressions for facial hemispasm. Such peroperative monitoring is considered to be most important in the surgical technique. The author reports on his experience and results.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Neurologique & Neurochirurgical P. Wertheimer, Service de Neurologie A, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sindou
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Fobé
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ciriano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fischer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D005152:Facial Muscles; D005154:Facial Nerve / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000601:surgery; D013035:Spasm / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D014276:Trigeminal Nerve / Q000601:surgery*; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Potentiels évoqués auditifs précoces per-opératoires dans les décompressions neurovasculaires des nerfs trijumeau et facial.