Management of facial paralysis resulting from temporal bone fractures: Our experience in 115 cases

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-84

  Darrouzet, Vincent ^a   Duclos, Jean Yves ^b   Liguoro, Dominique ^b   Truilhe, Yves ^b   De Bonfils, Camille ^b   Bebear, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035409254     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2001.116182     Document Type: Article

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