110. Cervical Sensory Nerve-Especially the Graft Auricular Nerve-Related to Craniofacial Pain

Great auricular nerve morbidity after nerve sacrifice during parotidectomy.

OBJECTIVE To clarify the extent, timing, and patient perspectives of great auricular nerve (GAN) morbidity and recovery after nerve sacrifice during parotidectomy during the first postoperative year. DESIGN Prospective series. SETTING Tertiary care academic medical center. Patients Twenty-seven consecutive patients who underwent parotidectomy with GAN sacrifice. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Preo...

Nerve Fibrils in the Sino-auricular Node

Aside from the nerve fibers which enter the pace-making node from the subepicardium, there were observed within the limits of the node a few ganglionic cells and a plexus of moniliform nerve fibrils in very close relation to its muscle fibers, hence the sino-auricular node, like the auriculo-ventricular, may be considered from a histological standpoint a neuromuscular organ.

Sensory Nerve Conduction Near - Nerve Recording

Near-nerve recording of sensory action potentials evoked by electrical and tactile stimuli is a valuable tool in the assessment of nerve pathophysiology. In most instances where percutaneous recording fails to discriminate sensory potentials from noise they can be picked up by needle recording. To localize the site of focal injuries by determination of conduction across the presumed site of les...

Evoked pain analgesia in chronic pelvic pain patients using respiratory-gated auricular vagal afferent nerve stimulation.

OBJECTIVE Previous vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) studies have demonstrated antinociceptive effects, and recent noninvasive approaches, termed transcutaneous-vagus nerve stimulation (t-VNS), have utilized stimulation of the auricular branch of the vagus nerve in the ear. The dorsal medullary vagal system operates in tune with respiration, and we propose that supplying vagal afferent stimulation ...

Greater auricular nerve in diagnosis of leprosy.