Using the frontal branch of the superficial temporal artery as a landmark for locating the course of the temporal branch of the facial nerve during rhytidectomy: An anatomical study

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 623-629

  Lei, Tao ^a,b   Xu, Da Chuan ^a   Gao, Jian Hua ^a   Zhong, Shi Zhen ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Yang, Dong Yuan ^a   Cui, Lin ^a   Li, Zhong Hua ^a   Wang, Xing Hai ^a   Yang, Shou Ming ^a  

^a First Military Medical University ^*

^b FIRST MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; FACIAL NERVE; FRONTAL BONE; HUMAN; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SUPERFICIAL TEMPORAL ARTERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL BONE;

DISSECTION; FACIAL NERVE; HUMANS; RHYTIDOPLASTY; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; ZYGOMA;

EID: 23044466577     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000174001.95115.9e     Document Type: Article

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