Clinical Study
Diagnosis and Management of Extracranial Head and Neck Schwannomas: A Review of 27 Cases
Table 2
Neural function outcome after tumor intracapsular enucleation.
| Case | Nerve origin | Preoperative status | Postoperrative status | 6 months after operation |
| 6 | Vagus nerve | Normal | Vocal cord paralysis | Vocal cord paralysis | 7 | Vagus nerve | Normal | Vocal cord paralysis | Vocal cord paralysis | 8 | Vagus nerve | Normal | Vocal cord paralysis | Vocal cord paralysis | 9 | Vagus nerve | Normal | Vocal cord paralysis | Vocal cord paralysis | 10 | Vagus nerve | Normal | Normal | Normal | 14 | Sympathetic trunk | Normal | Ptosis | Ptosis | 15 | Sympathetic trunk | Normal | Ptosis | Normal (improved) | 17 | Cervical plexus | Normal | Paralysis | Normal (improved) | 18 | Cervical plexus | Normal | Paralysis | Normal (improved) | 19 | Cervical plexus | Normal | Normal | Normal | 20 | Cervical plexus | Normal | Normal | Normal | 21 | Cervical plexus | Normal | Normal | Normal | 22 | Brachial plexus | Normal | Paralysis | Normal (improved) | 23 | Brachial plexus | Normal | Paralysis | Normal (improved) | 24 | Brachial plexus | Normal | Paralysis | Normal (improved) | 27 | Accessory nerve | Normal | Normal | Normal |
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