The frontal-temporal nerve triangle: A new concept of locating the motor and sensory nerves in upper third of the face rhytidectomy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 385-394

  Lei, Tao ^a   Gao, Jian Hua ^b   Xu, Da Chuan ^b   Zhong, Shi Zhen ^b   Li, Xiao Jian ^b   Chen, Bing ^b   Yang, Dong Yuan ^b   Wang, Xing Hai ^b  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AURICULOTEMPORAL NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; FACIAL NERVE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SENSORY NERVE; SUPRAORBITAL LOBE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TEMPORAL ARTERY; TEMPORAL LOBE; ZYGOMATICOFACIAL NERVE; ZYGOMATICOTEMPORAL NERVE; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; MALE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; ZYGOMA;

FACIAL NERVE; HUMANS; MALE; RHYTIDOPLASTY; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; ZYGOMA;

EID: 33644864855     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000200807.14826.f9     Document Type: Article

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