Significance and reliability of the House-Brackmann grading system for regional facial nerve function

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 154-158

  Reitzen, Shari D ^a   Babb, James S ^a   Lalwani, Anil K ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EYE; FACE DISORDER; FACE WEAKNESS; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; HOUSE BRACKMANN GRADING SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOUTH; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURILEMOMA; NOSE; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 59249103041     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.11.021     Document Type: Article

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