Masseter-to-facial nerve transfer: Is it possible to rehabilitate the function of both the paralyzed eyelid and the oral commissure?

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1353-1360

  Wang, Wei ^a   Yang, Chuan ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Li, Qingfeng ^a   Zhang, Yixin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Facial reanimation; Masseter nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYELID; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; LIP; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; PARALYSIS;

ADULT; EYELIDS; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIP; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; NERVE TRANSFER; PARALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877602708     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-012-9951-9     Document Type: Article

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