A comparison of commissure excursion following gracilis muscle transplantation for facial paralysis using a cross-face nerve graft versus the motor nerve to the masseter nerve

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2407-2413

  Bae, Yong Chan ^a   Zuker, Ronald M ^a   Manktelow, Ralph T ^a   Wade, Shawna ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MOEBIUS SYNDROME; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUTH; NEUROSURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THIGH; TRANSPLANTATION;

BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MICROSURGERY; MOBIUS SYNDROME; MOUTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMILING; THIGH;

EID: 33745374247     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000218798.95027.21     Document Type: Review

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