The degree of facial movement following microvascular muscle transfer in pediatric facial reanimation depends on donor motor nerve axonal density

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 370e-381e

  Snyder Warwick, Alison K ^a   Fattah, Adel Y ^a   Zive, Leanne ^a   Halliday, William ^a   Borschel, Gregory H ^b   Zuker, Ronald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL COUNT; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; DONOR; ESTHETICS; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AXONS; CELL COUNT; CHILD; ESTHETICS; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INNERVATION; MALE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MASSETER MUSCLE; METHODS; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE TRANSFER; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOPATHOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SMILING; SURGERY; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TRANSPLANTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 84964307851     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000000860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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