At Casa di Cura San Rossore, facial nerve palsy can be diagnosed, treated and cured.

What is facial nerve palsy?
Facial palsy results from interruption or compression of the facial nerve, with loss of function of the muscles responsible for facial expression. The patient with facial paralysis presents with characteristic symptoms: eye that does not close totally, upward rotation of the eyeball (Bell’s phenomenon), drooping of the angle of the mouth, difficulty making facial expressions and smiling.
Facial paralysis is a condition that can afflict patients of all ages.

How can the problem be solved?
If the nerve is damaged due to hemorrhage, compression, infection, trauma, but has not been disrupted, treatment begins with evaluation by the neurologist or otolaryngologist. Usually, before resorting to surgery, any spontaneous reinnervation is waited for.
On the other hand, when the facial nerve is interrupted or permanently damaged, depending on the site of the injury, the plastic surgeon, otolaryngologist, or neurosurgeon will perform the surgery. In the case of injuries on the face, the surgery will be referred to the plastic surgeon.
The main goals of surgical resuscitation are to restore oculopalpebral function and to restore functional and physiological smile.

Endocrine surgery is a branch of general surgery that deals with the surgery of the endocrine glands.
In the experience of the Casa di Cura San Rossore, diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands, and, finally, those of the endocrine part of the pancreas have been treated most frequently.

What has changed in thyroid surgery?
Stricter indications to perform thyroid gland surgery: as a result, fewer and fewer patients are being operated on. For example, the presence of nodules with benign features or small goiters are no longer an indication for surgery;

Less surgical aggressiveness in non-aggressive and non-locally advanced malignancies, resulting in a tendency to avoid unnecessary demolitive surgery;

Employment of new technologies in surgical dissection that make surgery more accurate and effective;

The possibility of using a device that allows monitoring of laryngeal nerves (Nerve Intraoperative Monitoring – NIM) with both intermittent and continuous technique, in order to prevent iatrogenic injury of nerve structures, a dreaded complication of thyroid surgery.