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The innervated trapezius flap in facial paralysis
R M Ryan1, N Waterhouse, D M Davies
1Department of Plastic Surgery, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth.
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
The use of an innervated lateral trapezius flap to allow movement of the paralysed face is described. Five cases are presented, all of whom achieved some facial movement postoperatively. The place of this technique in the armamentarium of procedures for facial reanimation is discussed.