Safely Navigating Around the Facial Nerve in Three Dimensions

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-477

  Owsley, John Q ^a,b   Agarwal, Cori A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Facelift; Facial; Nerve; SMAS

Indexed keywords

CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; REVIEW; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FASCIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MASSETER MUSCLE; PAROTID GLAND; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 52249099690     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2008.05.011     Document Type: Review

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