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- Title
Spontaneous return of facial motion following seventh cranial nerve resection.
- Authors
Norris, C. W.; Proud, G. O.
- Abstract
Four patients who had undergone operative procedures, wherein substantial segments of the VIIth cranial nerve had been resected, experienced some degree of reanimation of the muscles of expression despite the fact that no restitutive measures were employed. The site of insult was in the face in two; the temporal bone in one; and the fourth occurred in the cerebellopontine angle. Teeth-clenching and grimacing were practiced before a mirror by each subject, and one wonders if "re-education" of dormant trigeminal nerve fibers might have facilitated the rehabilitation which was achieved.
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 1981, Vol 91, Issue 2, p211
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1288/00005537-198102000-00005