title: Clinical and experimental study on facial paralysis in temporal bone fracture.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the main prognostic factors and significance of facial nerve decompression for facial paralysis in temporal bone fracture.
  
  
  METHODS
  The main relative prognostic factors of 64 patients with facial paralysis were analyzed. An experimental model of facial paralysis was made. The expansion rates of facial nerve in the facial canal opening group and the facial canal non-opening group were measured and observed under electron microscope.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The main factors affecting the prognosis were facial nerve decompression and selection of surgery time. The expansion rate of facial nerve in the facial canal opening group was significantly higher than that of the facial canal non-opening group (t=7.53, P<0.01). The injury degree of the nerve fiber in the facial canal non-opening group was severe.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Early facial nerve decompression is beneficial to restoration of the facial nerve function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D005154:Facial Nerve / Q000601:surgery / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000150:complications; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000293:injuries*