[Objective diagnosis of the auriculo-temporal syndrome (author's transl)]

After 263 operations on the parotid fourteen developed the auriculo-temporal syndrome. It occurs more often after extensive procedures with dissection of the facial nerve than after simple extracapsular shelling out. A method of establishing the diagnosis of the syndrome objectively by measuring the electrical resistance is described. The aetiology ist attributed to parasympathetic nerve fibres regenerating in the wrong direction after surgery.