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Single-incision sural nerve harvest: Technical considerations for cross-facial nerve grafting
Babak Azizzadeh1,2, Leslie E Irvine3, Donald B Yoo4,5
1Division of Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Abstract:
b.a. is the senior author and performed all of the procedures described, and conceptualized and edited the article. l.e.i. was responsible for data collection and analysis, editing the manuscript, and compiling the figures. d.b.y. performed the first single-incision nerve harvest with b.a. and is responsible for b.a. adopting the practice. b.l. is b.a.'s partner and assisted with the majority of surgeries and proofread the manuscript. g.g.m. was cosurgeon on many of the described cases and is partly responsible for conceptualizing the article. g.l.p. was responsible for data collection and writing of the original manuscript and compiling the illustrations. Laryngoscope, 129:2464-2466, 2019.
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