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This study was conducted to identify clinical and histologic factors that would influence, independently of tumor staging, postoperative facial function after removal of a vestibular schwannoma. A prospective study was performed on 35 consecutive patients with vestibular schwannomas who underwent the translabyrinthine approach. Facial function was assessed before and 1 year after surgery. The factors that influenced the postoperative outcome of the facial function independently of tumor staging were the absence or the desynchronization of homolateral auditory brainstem responses and tumor edema. Other factors (audiovestibular signs of brainstem compression, tumor inflammation, positive p53 protein immunostaining) were predictive of postoperative facial function but also correlated with tumor staging. Besides the well-known prognostic value of tumor staging for postoperative facial outcome, clinical (auditory brainstem responses) and histologic (tumor edema) factors correlated with postoperative facial function.

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Alain Rey : Towards a problematics of the example. Starting from a selection of texts and/or spoken language, dictionaries cannot but extract (exemplum), show or illustrate (paradigma), and quote (citatio) phrases and sentences that are supposed to represent a language ; in fact they construct an ideal state of language properly called a norm. Examples and illustrations in dictionaries constitute the core of their more or less creative aspect in politics. With definitions and semantic analysis which are often inspired by examples, illustration and quotation form their main witnesses of cultural ideology. French lexicography, in particular, is linked to social and cultural values as these are embodied in literature, which comprises in fact only a very small part of the total speech (Saussurean « parole ») in a language. Thus, the choice of examples dictionaries make is one of the best possible ways to understand how a society chooses to construct its own linguistic model and norm. Examples and illustrations in dictionaries constitute the core of their more or less creative aspect in politics. With definitions and semantic analysis which are often inspired by examples, illustration and quotation form their main witnesses of cultural ideology. French lexicography, in particular, is linked to social and cultural values as these are embodied in literature, which comprises in fact only a very small part of the total speech (Saussurean « parole ») in a language. Thus, the choice of examples dictionaries make is one of the best possible ways to understand how a society chooses to construct its own linguistic model and norm.

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