Deceptive Facial Nerve Variant May Cloud Otologists’ Judgment: A Dilemma in Middle Ear Surgery
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Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (CLK, WHL, CFL) Department of Pathology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (WYL) Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (JFL) National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (CLK, WHL, WYL, JFL, CFL) Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (CLK) Department of Otolaryngology, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China (CLK)
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تاریخ انتشار 2015