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Minsoo Kim1, Sang-Ku Park2, Seunghoon Lee3

  • 1Department of Neurosurgery, Gangneung Asan Hospital, Gangneung, Republic of Korea; Department of Neurosurgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Department of Medicine, Graduate School, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Clinical Neurophysiology : Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
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PubMed
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Hemifacial spasmIntraoperative neurophysiological monitoringLateral spread responseMentalis muscleMicrovascular decompressionOrbicularis oris muscle

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