Nerve transfers for facial transplantation: A cadaveric study for motor and sensory restoration

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1231-1240

  Audolfsson, Thorir ^b   Rodríguez Lorenzo, Andrés ^a,b   Wong, Corrine ^b   Cheng, Angela ^b   Kildal, Morten ^b   Nowinski, Daniel ^b   Rozen, Shai ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b not available   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CRANIAL NERVE; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SENSATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; CRANIAL NERVES; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSFER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSATION; SMILING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879946358     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31828bd394     Document Type: Article

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