Functional upgrading of partially recovered facial palsy by cross-face nerve grafting with distal end-to-side neurorrhaphy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 597-608

  Frey, Manfred ^a   Giovanoli, Pietro ^a   Michaelidou, Maria ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE; ANASTOMOSIS; CONVALESCENCE; SUTURING METHOD; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SMILING; SURAL NERVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TEMPORAL MUSCLE;

EID: 33644871206     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000197136.56749.c6     Document Type: Article

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