title: Parotid surgery and the otolaryngologist.
abstract: Otolaryngologists are performing more parotid surgery and are using otologic landmarks and methods to identify and preserve the facial nerve. Over the past 15 years in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Tulane Medical School, use of the tympanomastoid fissure as a guide to the facial nerve has reduced the incidence of immediate facial paralysis from 60% to 14% in benign parotid disease.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008416:Mastoid / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D010036:Otolaryngology; D010305:Parotid Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D010306:Parotid Gland / Q000601:surgery*; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000033:anatomy & histology