From: Bell’s palsy misdiagnosis: characteristics of occult tumors causing facial paralysis
Patient | Reanimation surgery | No of reanimation surgeries | Upper face | Lower face | Final result at last follow-up (modified House-Brackmann Grade) | ||||||
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Eyebrow | Eye | Nasolabial fold | Oral | Whole face | Synkinesis | Grade | |||||
1 | Concurrent | 2 | Gold weight insertion Brow lift Lower lid sling | Static sling Lower lip wedge resection | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | IV |
2 | Concurrent | 1 | Facial nerve interposition cable graft | Gracilis free tissue transfer Additional dynamic suspension using temporalis muscle | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | III |
3 | Stage | 1 | Gold weight insertion | Static sling | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | V |
4 | Concurrent | 3 | Gold weight insertion, Lower lid sling | Gracilis free tissue transfer | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | III |
5 | Stage | 2 | Gold weight insertion | Orthodromic temporalis muscle transfer | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | III |
6 | None | 0 | Refuse | Refuse | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
7 | Stage | 1 | Gold weight insertion, Lower lid sling* | Static sling* | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
8 | None | 0 | Refuse | Refuse | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
9 | Stage | 1 | Gold weight insertion * | Static sling* | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |