Outcomes and complications of direct end-to-side facial-hypoglossal nerve anastomosis according to the modified May technique: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 786-791

  Venail, Frederic ^a,b   Sabatier, Pascal ^a   Mondain, Michel ^a,b   Segniarbieux, François ^a   Leipp, Christophe ^a   Uziel, Alain ^a,b  

^a GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Montpellier University Medical Center   (France)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; End to side suture; Facial palsy; Hypoglossal nerve; Tongue hemiparesis

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FACE; FACE MALFORMATION; FACIAL HYPOGLOSSAL ANASTOMOSIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FACIAL SYNKINESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPOGEUSIA; MALE; MASTOID TUMOR; MODIFIED MAY TECHNIQUE; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNKINESIS; THERAPY DELAY; TONGUE; TONGUE DISEASE; TONGUE HYPOTROPHY; TONGUE PARALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANASTOMOSIS; BRAIN TUMOR; FACIAL NERVE; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65649105055     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.9.JNS08769     Document Type: Article

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