The role of spleno-pulmonary parenchymatous anastomosis in the reduction of portal hypertension in dogs

✍ Scribed by Paul Field; Patrick E. Conen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 761 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.18004821016

✦ Synopsis

Further analyses showed that the main predisposing factors were total, as opposed to superfacial, parotidectomy, and irrigation of the wound with perchloride of mercury.

3. Facial paralysis was produced in rabbits by procedures equivalent to the parotidectomies performed in man. The procedure equivalent to total parotidectomy in its effect on the facial nerve caused a high incidence of facial paralysis.

4. The most likely cause of functional paralysis following parotidectomy is ischaemic anoxia of the nerve as a result of anatomical interference with its 5. Irrigation of the wound after parotidectomy is certainly contra-indicated with perchloride of mercury and probably also with other chemotherapeutic agents.

5. Functional facial paralysis following parotidectomy cannot be avoided completely, but it may be possible to reduce its incidence and degree without blood-supply.

prejudice to the pathological soundness of the operation by measures directed towards reducing the interference with the blood-supply of the facial nerve.

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