title: Stripping surgery in intratemporal facial nerve schwannomas with poor facial nerve function.
abstract: To report stripping surgery in intratemporal facial nerve schwannomas (FNS) with poor facial nerve function.
  
  
  METHODS
  We attempted stripping surgery to completely remove intratemporal FNS with nerve intact in 17 patients, and succeeded in 12 cases. Clinical features of the tumors and the surgical approach were discussed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Multi-segment involvement was present in 10 cases (58.8%). The tumors were completely removed in all cases, and facial nerve integrity was preserved in 12 patients (70.6%). Six of 12 cases (50.0%) with nerve intact obtained acceptable facial nerve recovery, two of which recovered to Grade II, compared to 2 of 5 cases (40%) with nerve grafting.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Multi-segment involvement was more common in FNS. Stripping surgery could remove tumor completely with nerve intact in majority patients, and it seemed to obtain better outcomes of facial nerve.
authors: Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, P.R. China.
authors: Renrong
authors: R
authors: Lu
authors: Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, P.R. China.
authors: Shaohua
authors: S
authors: Li
authors: Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, P.R. China.
authors: Linfeng
authors: L
authors: Zhang
authors: Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, P.R. China.
authors: Yefeng
authors: Y
authors: Li
authors: Department of Obstetrics, Jinan Maternity and Child Care Hospital, Jinan, Shandong Province, P.R. China. Electronic address: sunqian201411@163.com.
authors: Qian
authors: Q
authors: Sun
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005154:Facial Nerve; D005155:Facial Nerve Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D020127:Recovery of Function; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult