Great auricular nerve morbidity after nerve sacrifice during parotidectomy

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 642-649

  Ryan, William R ^a,b   Fee Jr , Willard E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROMA; PARESTHESIA; PAROTIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY EVALUATION; SKIN SENSATION; SPINAL NERVE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIAL NERVES; EAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESTHESIA; PAROTID GLAND; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745289013     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.132.6.642     Document Type: Article

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