Pathophysiology and surgical treatment of hemifacial spasm

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-111

  Nagahiro, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIECTOMY; DYSPHAGIA; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HEARING LOSS; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WALLENBERG SYNDROME;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0031881215     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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