Stretching of the Facial Nerve for Facial Spasm
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منابع مشابه
Decompression of the facial nerve in cases of hemifacial spasm.
a ) Primary hemifacial spasm, by some authors termed "cryptogenic", "idiopathic" or "autonomous". In reviewing 106 cases Ehni and Woltm a n 5 gave the fo l lowing characteristics of this group: (1) the spasms are of an intermittent, twitching nature, ( 2 ) the eyel ids on the ipsilateral side are almost always involved, ( 3 ) the spasms are usually unilateral and when bilateral they are not syn...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1885
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-188501000-00058