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Single-stage Dynamic Reanimation of the Smile in Irreversible Facial Paralysis by Free Functional Muscle Transfer
Published on: March 1, 2015
[Surgical treatment longstanding, irreversible, peripheral facial palsy]
A Kukwa1, M Pietniczka-Załeska
1Kliniki Otolaryngologicznej Szpitala Czerniakowskiego, Warszawie.
Otolaryngologia Polska = the Polish Otolaryngology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Authors described the technique of surgical treatment of the longstanding, irreversible peripheral facial palsy. Both neurography and myoplasty were combined. The most functionally effective detail in this method is the substitution of the hypoglossal nerve function with the descending branch of the cervical ansa.
