Details of Facial Nerve Decompression

In this surgery, abnormal compression on the facial nerve is relieved.

May include:

• Aches and pain
• Tingling or numbness
• Muscle weakness
• Reduced flexibility
• Redness, swelling

Neuropraxia  Axonotmesis  Neurotmeis  Bell’s palasy  Herpes zoster oticus  Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome  Skull fractures  Birth injury  Suppurative otitis media  Parotid swelling  Tumors

• Nerve conduction tests
• Electromyography
• Ultrasound
• MRI

• Post-operative conductive loss
• Sensory hearing loss
• Epidural bleeding
• Edema within temporal lobe
• Meningitis
• Headache
• Inadvertent injury to other cranial nerves
• Uncontrolled bleeding