The use of Gore-tex vascular grafts in microvascular decompression for patients with hemifacial spasm--technical note

Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo). 1993 Feb;33(2):111-3. doi: 10.2176/nmc.33.111.

Abstract

Microvascular decompression was performed in 10 hemifacial spasm patients using Gore-tex vascular grafts as a prosthesis. Postoperative complication (transient deafness) occurred only in one patient, and recurrence in none during follow-up of 1-51 months, indicating that Gore-tex is a very effective prosthesis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis*
  • Cerebral Arteries / pathology
  • Cerebral Arteries / surgery*
  • Facial Nerve Diseases / etiology
  • Facial Nerve Diseases / surgery*
  • Facial Paralysis / etiology
  • Facial Paralysis / surgery*
  • Female
  • Hemiplegia / etiology
  • Hemiplegia / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Muscle Spasticity
  • Nerve Compression Syndromes / etiology
  • Nerve Compression Syndromes / surgery*
  • Polytetrafluoroethylene*

Substances

  • Polytetrafluoroethylene