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Small Mastication-After-Craniotomy

Conditions
K08.88
Registration Number
DRKS00011096
Lead Sponsor
niversitätsklinikum Freiburg, Klinik für Neurochirurgie
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
63
Inclusion Criteria

Benign or low-grade malign intracranial disease which is treated via a frontolateral, pterional or temporal approach.

Exclusion Criteria

Preoperative:
- pt. already been operated contralaterally through one of these approaches
- recurrent approach ipsilateral
- disease of the jaw that disables patient's masticatory function (e.g. abscess, fracture...)
- pt. with condition that requires postoperative radio-/chemotherapy
- toothless patients
- pt. in coma or dementia

Postoperative:
- persisting neurological deficit that affects mastication (facial paresis >H&B III°, lower cranial nerve paresis, hemiparesis) 3 months after surgery
- persisting loss of olfactory function 3 months after surgery
- new condition affecting masticatory function (e.g. abscess, facture of the jaw)
- recurrent approach ipsi- or contralateral via a frontolateral, pterional or temporal approach

Study & Design

Study Type
observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
OHIP-score preoperative vs. 3 months after surgery
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
OHIP-score preoperative vs. 15 months after surgery
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