Medical MCQ-Following a parotid surgery, the patient developed sweating over the side of his face and over the cheek while eating. This is due to abnormal connections that develop between parasympathetic secretomotor fibres in the auriculotemporal nerve with which of the other nerves?

Following a parotid surgery, the patient developed sweating over the side of his face and over the cheek while eating. This is due to abnormal connections that develop between parasympathetic secretomotor fibres in the auriculotemporal nerve with which of the other nerves?

Glossopharyngeal nerve

Great auricular nerve

Facial nerve

Buccal nerve

Question Category:

ENT

Correct Answer:

Great auricular nerve

Description:

Auriculotemporal nerve normally carries parasympathetic fibers to the parotid gland and is severed during injury to parotid gland. Cause of gustatory sweating in freys syndrome is due to the faulty regeneration of fibers after injury to the auriculotemporal nerves in which secretomotor fibers are connected to the sympathetic fibers inside it. Sometimes the secretomotor fibers are connected to the sympathetic fibers in the greater auricular nerve which result in sweating over the skin covering the parotid gland and the angle of the mandible during eating.

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