Local injection of botulinum toxin type A for hemifacial spasm

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 245-248

  Oyama, Hirofumi ^a   Ikeda, Akira ^a   Inoue, Shigeo ^a   Nakashima, Yasuhiro ^a   Shibuya, Masato ^a  

^a CHUKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aberrant regeneration; Botulinum toxin; Hemifacial spasm; Neurovascular decompression; Trauma; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; EATING; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0036293292     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.42.245     Document Type: Article

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