Thermal effects of mobile phones on facial nerves and surrounding soft tissue

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 559-562

  Acar, Gul Ozbilen ^a,d   Yener, H Murat ^b   Savrun, Feray Karaali ^c   Kalkan, Tunaya ^c   Bayrak, Ibrahim ^c   Enver, Ozgun ^c  

^a GOZTEPE TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Department of Pediatrics Division of Medical Genetics ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Animal study; Facial nerve function; Mobile phone; Thermal effect

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SOFT TISSUE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEEK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FACE MUSCLE; HEAT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELLULAR PHONE; CHEEK; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EAR; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; HOT TEMPERATURE; MALE; MICROWAVES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RABBITS;

EID: 64849107812     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20070     Document Type: Article

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