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Single-stage Dynamic Reanimation of the Smile in Irreversible Facial Paralysis by Free Functional Muscle Transfer
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[Recurrent Bell's facial palsy: our experience]
M L Navarrete1, R Céspedes, M Mesa
1Hospital Valle de Hebrón, Barcelona.
Acta Otorrinolaringologica Espanola
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
Recurrent facial palsy is noted infrequently in the literature. We present a comparative study of recurrent Bell's palsy (RBP) with regard to non-recurrent Bell's palsy (NRBP). Afterwards we compare among RBP cases those of ipsilateral recurrence (RRBP) to those of contralateral one (ARBP). We constate that non-recurrent Bell'palsy formes behave similarly to the contralateral recurrent forms.
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