Quantitative ultrasonography of facial muscles in patients with chronic facial palsy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 358-365

  Volk, Gerd Fabian ^a   Pohlmann, Martin ^a   Sauer, Maik ^a   Finkensieper, Mira ^a   Guntinas Lichius, Orlando ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facial muscles; Facial nerve; Facial palsy; Mimetic muscles; Quantitative sonography; Reconstructive surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC FACIAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASTICATION; MUSCLE THICKNESS; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PALSY; MIMETIC MUSCLES; QUANTITATIVE SONOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DENERVATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGENERATION;

EID: 84907424860     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24154     Document Type: Article

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