[Artery-nerve conflict. Involvement of the acoustic-facial group]

Six cases of "Conflit Artère-Nerf" concerning acoustico-facial nerves discovered by surgical exploration of cerebello-pontine angle. This conflit is due to an encircling middle cerebellar artery constricting the nerve or by a large Internal Auditory Artery lying upon it. Dissection of the surroundings arachnoidal tracts had given in these cases good results.