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Negative Experiences With Free Muscle Grafts to the Cheek in Patients With Facial Paralysis

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Muscle Transplantation

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To reanimate paralyzed elevators of the corner of the mouth with free muscle grafts several variations are possible. Over the past 100 years many operations for correction of facial paralysis have been described (Nicolai, 1979), and in the past ten years free grafting of skeletal muscle has been developed.

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  1. Department of Plastic Surgery, St. Radboud University Hospital, 6525 GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Dr. J.-P. A. Nicolai & P. H. Robinson

  2. Department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Dr. J.-P. A. Nicolai & P. H. Robinson

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  1. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Second Surgical University Clinic of Vienna, Austria

    Gerhard Freilinger  & Jürgen Holle  & 

  2. Department of Anatomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Bruce Martin Carlson

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Nicolai, JP.A., Robinson, P.H. (1981). Negative Experiences With Free Muscle Grafts to the Cheek in Patients With Facial Paralysis. In: Freilinger, G., Holle, J., Carlson, B.M. (eds) Muscle Transplantation. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8618-3_21

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