Outcomes of microneurovascular facial reanimation using masseteric innervation in patients with long-standing facial palsy resulting from cured brainstem lesions

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 663-674

  Krishnan, Kartik G ^a   Schackert, Gabriele ^b   Seifert, Volker ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Facial paralysis; Free functional muscle flaps; Masseteric nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MICRONEUROVASCULAR FACIAL REANIMATION; MOEBIUS SYNDROME; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEUROVASCULAR ISLAND FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNKINESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956183544     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000375531.77489.79     Document Type: Article

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