Use of a Y-tube conduit after facial nerve injury reduces collateral axonal branching at the lesion site but neither reduces polyinnervation of motor endplates nor improves functional recovery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1544-1556

  Hizay, Arzu ^a   Ozsoy, Umut ^a   Demirel, Bahadir Murat ^a   Ozsoy, Ozlem ^a   Angelova, Srebrina K ^b   Ankerne, Janina ^b   Sarikcioglu, Sureyya Bilmen ^a   Dunlop, Sarah A ^c   Angelov, Doychin N ^b   Sarikcioglu, Levent ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Entubulation; Facial nerve; Functional recovery; Motor neuron; Nerve repair

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FACIAL FACIAL ANASTOMOSIS COAPTATION; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FACIAL NERVE SURGERY; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIBRISSA; VIDEORECORDING; Y TUBE; Y TUBE RECONSTRUCTION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AXONS; AXOTOMY; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84861526363     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318249f16f     Document Type: Article

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