Management of a total parotidectomy defect with a gastrocnemius muscle transfer and vascularized sural nerve grafting

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 677-682

  Hyodo, Ikuo ^a   Ozawa, Taijiro ^a   Hasegawa, Yasuhisa ^a   Ogawa, Tetsuya ^a   Terada, Akihiro ^a   Torii, Shuhei ^b  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Facial nerve reconstruction; Total parotidectomy; Vascularized nerve graft

Indexed keywords

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE GRAFT; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CARCINOMA, MUCOEPIDERMOID; FACIAL NERVE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN; SURAL NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 34249291980     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000239844.57064.ed     Document Type: Article

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