Improvement of chronic facial pain and facial dyskinesia with the help of botulinum toxin application

Head and Face Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Junghans, Katharina ^a   Rohrbach, Saskia ^a   Ellies, Maik ^a   Laskawi, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 35148864393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1746160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-160X-3-32     Document Type: Article

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