The relationship between Bell's palsy and morphometric aspects of the facial nerve

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 269, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1691-1695

  Kondo, Yoichiro ^a   Moriyama, Hiroshi ^b   Hirai, Shuichi ^a   Qu, Ning ^a   Itoh, Masahiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bell's palsy; Facial nerve; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FIBER; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AXONS; BELL PALSY; CADAVER; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84864928108     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: 14344726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-011-1835-0     Document Type: Article

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