Leprosy affects facial nerves at the main trunk: Neurolysis can possibly avoid transfer procedures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1565-1573

  Turkof, Edvin ^a   Tambwekar, Suresh ^b   Kamal, Shawki ^b   El Dahrawi, Mona ^b   Mansukhani, Khushnuma ^b   Soliman, Hussein ^b   Ciovica, Ruxandra ^b   Mayr, Norbert ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEPROSY; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEURITIS; NEUROLYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NOTE; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; SENSORY NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRANSFER; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031721628     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199810000-00034     Document Type: Article

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