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ArticleEuropean archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery2024

Infiltrative fibrous lesion of the facial nerve mimicking a facial nerve tumor.

Hee Won Seo, Jung-Yup Lee, Yikyung Kim, Junhun Cho, Yang-Sun Cho

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Article in European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Hee Won SeoDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Jung-Yup LeeDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Yikyung KimDepartment of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Junhun ChoDepartment of Pathology and Translational Genomics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Yang-Sun ChoDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. yangsun.cho@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9180-2903
Samsung Medical Center · KRHanyang University · KR

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purposeTo report three cases of facial nerve lesions that were clinically expected to be facial nerve tumors but showed fibrotic infiltration without any apparent signs of a specific tumor on histopathological findings. We also aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics of these cases.

methodsMedical records of patients who underwent surgery for facial nerve lesions were reviewed.

resultsAll three cases initially had House-Brackmann (HB) grade IV-V facial nerve palsy. On radiological imaging, schwannoma or glomus tumor originating from the facial nerve was suspected. All patients underwent complete surgical removal of the neoplasm followed by facial nerve reconstruction using the sural nerve. The lesions were histologically confirmed as infiltrative fibrous lesions without tumor cells. In two cases, facial nerve palsy improved to HB grade III by nine months post-surgery, and there were no signs of recurrence on follow-up MRI. The other case, after 1 year of follow-up, showed persistence of HB grade V facial nerve palsy without any evidence of recurrence.

conclusionFibrotic lesions of the facial nerve could mimic primary facial nerve tumors. Clinicians should consider this condition even when a facial nerve tumor is suspected.

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Bell PalsyCranial Nerve NeoplasmsFacial Nerve DiseasesFacial ParalysisGlomus TumorHead and Neck NeoplasmsFacial NerveHumansRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeFacial neoplasmFacial nerve tumorFacial palsyFacial paralysisFibrotic lesion

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