Functional anatomy of the mandibular nerve: Consequences of nerve injury and entrapment

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-150

  Piagkou, Maria ^a   Demesticha, Theano ^b   Skandalakis, Panayiotis ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Metropolitan Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

entrapment; lingual nerve; mandibular nerve; nerve injury; neuropathies

Indexed keywords

CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; LINGUAL NERVE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE CELL; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURALGIA; NEUROANATOMY; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL BASE; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ATROPHY; AXONS; HUMANS; LINGUAL NERVE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEURALGIA; PARESIS; PARESTHESIA;

EID: 79951632054     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.21089     Document Type: Review

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