Facial nerve palsy after head injury: Case incidence, causes, clinical profile and outcome

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 388-391

  Odebode, Timothy Olugbenga ^a,b   Ologe, Foluwasayo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

^b NONE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Facial nerve palsy; Head injury; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FALLING; FEMALE; GENDER; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NIGERIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747597554     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000224140.26660.5c     Document Type: Article

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