Using an end-to-side interposed sural nerve graft for facial nerve reinforcement after vestibular schwannoma resection: Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 920-923

  Samii, Madjid ^a   Koerbel, Andrei ^a   Safavi Abbasi, S A M ^a   Di Rocco, Federico ^a   Samii, Amir ^a   Gharabaghi, Alireza ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

End to side nerve repair; Facial nerve; Neurorrhaphy; Sural graft; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FACIAL NERVE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE SURGERY; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 33845481819     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.105.6.920     Document Type: Article

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