Predicting the long-term outcome after idiopathic facial nerve paralysis

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 848-851

  Mantsopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Psillas, Georgios ^b   Psychogios, Georgios ^a   Brase, Cristoph ^a   Iro, Heinrich ^a   Constantinidis, Jannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bell's palsy; Electroneurography; Facial nerve; Long term results; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; GLUCOCORTICOID; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BELL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEXTRANS; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PREDNISOLONE; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959919664     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31821da2c6     Document Type: Article

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