Three-dimensional video analysis of the paralyzed face reanimated by cross-face nerve grafting and free gracilis muscle transplantation: Quantification of the functional outcome

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1709-1722

  Frey, Manfred ^a,b   Michaelidou, Maria ^a,b   Tzou, Chieh Han John ^a,b   Pona, Igor ^a,b   Mittlböck, Martina ^a,b   Gerber, Hans ^a,b   Stüssi, Edgar ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID CLOSURE; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL MOVEMENT; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LAGOPHTHALMOS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SYNKINESIS; TOOTH; VIDEO ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; BLINKING; CONVALESCENCE; EYELID; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINKING; EYELIDS; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SMILING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149399227     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818a9a8d     Document Type: Article

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