Facial Palsy

Chapter 33 of Volume 2, Head, Neck & Craniofacial. Revision notes and examiner-style viva questions with model answers for the FRCS (Plast).

8 viva questions in this chapter

1. This patient has a complete facial palsy. How would you manage them?
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2. How do you protect this eye?
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3. Cross-facial nerve graft or nerve to masseter?
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4. The palsy is long-standing. Gracilis or temporalis?
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5. Your gracilis has not moved at twelve months. What now?
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6. This patient recovered from Bell’s but her eye closes when she smiles.
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7. You divide the facial nerve during a parotidectomy for cancer. What do you do?
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8. A child with Möbius syndrome. Both sides.
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