Facial nerve grafting

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 486-489

  Falcioni, Maurizio ^a   Taibah, Abdelkader ^a   Russo, Alessandra ^a   Piccirillo, Enrico ^a   Sanna, Mario ^a  

^a GRUPPO OTOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Nerve grafting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE MALFORMATION; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURAL NERVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038475998     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200305000-00022     Document Type: Article

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