Contemporary state of surgical treatment of facial nerve paresis. Preliminary experience with new procedures

Acta Chirurgiae Plasticae

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 125-131

  Kozak J ^a   Voska, P ^a   Tichy M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Muscular transplantation; Nervous transplantation; Paresis of the VIIth nerve; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; MUSCLE TRANSPOSITION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEURECTOMY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FASCIA; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SMILING; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TEMPORAL MUSCLE; TIME FACTORS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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