Long-term great auricular nerve morbidity after sacrifice during parotidectomy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1140-1146

  Ryan, William R ^a   Fee, Willard E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Great auricular nerve; Nerve morbidity; Nerve sacrifice; Parotidectomy

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA (SENSORY DYSFUNCTION); ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREAT AURICULAR NERVE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE FUNCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PAROTID GLAND CARCINOMA; PAROTIDECTOMY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSATION; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CRANIAL NERVE; EXTERNAL EAR; HYPESTHESIA; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTID GLAND DISEASE; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; CRANIAL NERVES; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; PARESTHESIA; PAROTID DISEASES; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 66849095400     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20246     Document Type: Article

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