Supramaximal stimulation during intraoperative facial nerve monitoring as a simple parameter to predict early functional outcome after parotidectomy.

Conclusion: A supramaximal stimulation at 2 mA during intraoperative electromyographic (EMG) facial nerve monitoring appears to be a simple and effective parameter to predict immediate postoperative injury.

Objectives: To assess the role of systematic intraoperative facial nerve monitoring in predicting the early functional outcomes obtained after parotidectomy.

Methods: Data were collected from patients who underwent parotidectomy.

Transoral approach for percutaneous vertebroplasty in the treatment of osteolytic tumor lesions of the lateral mass of the atlas: feasibility and initial experience in 2 patients.

Study Design: Case series.

Objective: To report our early experience of percutaneous vertebro-plasty via a transoral approach of the lesions of the lateral mass of C1.

Summary Of Background Data: Percutaneous vertebroplasty has gained acceptance for the treatment of osteolytic lesions of the spine.