Achieving symmetry in facial palsy with the trapdoor flap [20]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 349-350

  Calderón, Wilfredo Luis ^a   Umana, Miguel ^a   Borel, Claudio ^a   Leniz, Patricio ^a   Israel, Guillermo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DEL TRABAJADOR   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; CASE REPORT; FACE SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FASCIA LATA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD;

FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FACIAL PARALYSIS; HUMANS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 38049074772     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000300294.75821.fe     Document Type: Letter

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