Intraoperative Cranial Nerve Monitoring
Intraoperative cranial nerve monitoring is performed during
surgical procedures which place one or more cranial nerves at risk.
Some of these procedures include acoustic neuroma and other skull base tumor surgeries, as well as posterior fossa procedures
such as microvascular cranial nerve decompression. Monitoring of the seventh and eighth cranial nerves
is most common, however, fifth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth cranial nerve integrity may also be observed intraoperatively through this procedure.
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