Facial Nerve Monitoring in Middle Ear and Mastoid Surgery

Hypothesis Intraoperative electromyographic facial nerve monitoring, long accepted as the standard of care in surgery for acoustic neuroma and other cerebellopontine angle tumors, may be of aid in middle ear and mastoid surgery.

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