Background: Parotid surgery poses significant risk of postoperative morbidity, primarily facial nerve dysfunction. Adjunctive tools such as fine needle aspiration (FNA) and facial nerve stimulation (FNS) are controversial and subject to operator variability. The objective of this review was to examine a myriad of perioperative measures that may influence post-operative surgical outcomes.
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