Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2plfb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T15:47:41.111Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Pressure neuropathy of the facial nerve: A case report with light and electron microscopic findings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Jukka Ylikoski*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Derald E. Brackmann
Affiliation:
Otologic Medical Group Inc., Los Angeles, U.S.A..
Seppo Savolainen
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Helsinki, Finland
*
Jukka Ylikoski, Helsingin Yliopistollinen Keskussairaala, Korva-, Nenä- Ja Kurkkutautien Klinikka, Haartmaninkatu. 4 E 00290. Helsinki 29. Finland.

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Clinical records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1984

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Aguayo, A., Naiŕ, C. P. V. and Midgley, R. (1971) Experimental progressive compression neuropathy in the rabbit. Archives of Neurology, 24: 358364.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Aguayo, A. J. (1975) Neuropathology due to compression and entrapment. In: Peripheral Neuropathy (Vol I) Eds, Dyck, P. J., Thomas, P. K., Lambert, E. H., WB Saunders Philadelphia Vol I, pp. 688713.Google Scholar
Denny-Brown, D., and Brenner, C. (1944) The effect of percussion of nerve. Journal of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 7: 7695.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Dyck, P. J. (1969) Experimental hypertrophic neuropathy. Archives of Neurology, 21: 7395.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fullerton, P. M., and Gilliatt, R. W. (1967) Pressure neuropathy in the hind foot of the guinea pig. Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 30: 1825.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gasser, H. S. and Erlanger, J. (1929) The role of fiber size in the establishment of a nerve block by pressure or cocain. American Journal of Psychiology, 88: 581591.Google Scholar
Giflin, G. (1979) Concerning the ganglion (?) enlargement (‘pseudo-ganglion’) on the nerve to the teres minor muscle. Journal of Anatomy. 91: 466490.Google Scholar
Kullman, G. L., Dyck, P. J., and Cody, D. T. R. (1971) Anatomy of the mastoid portion of the facial nerve. Archives of Otolaryngology, 93: 2933.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lundborg, G. (1970) Ischemic nerve injury. Experimental studies on intraneural microvascvular pathophysiology and nerve function in a limb, subjected to temporary circulation arrest. Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Supplement 6: 3113.Google Scholar
Lundborg, G. (1979) The intrinsic vascuarization of human peripheral nerves: structural and functional aspects. Journal of Hand Surgery, 4: 3441.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Marie, P., and Foix, C. (1913) Atrophic isolée de l'èminence thènar d'prigine néuritique, role du ligament annulaire antérieur du carpe dans la pathogénie de la lesion. Revue Neurologigne, 21, II: 647649.Google Scholar
Ochoa, J., Danta, G., Fowler, T. J. and Gilliatt, R. W. (1971) Nature of the nerve lesion caused by a pneumatic tourniquet. Nature, 233: 265266.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ochoa, J. and Marotte, L. (1973) The nature of the nerve lesion caused by chronic entrapment in the guinea pig. Journal of Neurological Sciences, 19: 491495.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ochoa, J. and Neary, D. (1975) Localized hypertrophic neuropathy intraneural tumor or chronic nerve entrapment?. Lancet, I: 632633.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Neary, D., Ochoa, J. and Gilliatt, R. W. (1975) Sub-clinic entrapment neuropathy in man. Journal of the Neurological Science, 24: 283298.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sunderland, S. (1976) The nerve lesion in the carpal tunnel syndrome. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 39: 615626.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sunderland, S. (1978) Nerves and Nerve Injuries. Churchill, Livingstone, Edinburgh pp. 7474.Google Scholar
Thomas, P. K. and Fullerton, P. M. (1963) Nerve fibre size in the carpel tunnel syndrome. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 26: 520527.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weisl, H. and Osborne, G. V. (1964) The pathological changes in the rats' nerves subjected to moderate compression. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery B, 46: 297306.Google Scholar
Ylikoski, J., Savolainen, S. and Bagger-Sjöbäck, D. (1982) The human facial nerve; quantitative features. Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 386: 258261.CrossRefGoogle Scholar