Facial reanimation with gracilis muscle transplantation and obturator nerve coaptation to the motor nerve of masseter muscle as a salvage procedure in an unreliable cross-face nerve graft

Microsurgery. 2011 Feb;31(2):164-6. doi: 10.1002/micr.20844. Epub 2011 Jan 25.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Facial Nerve / surgery*
  • Facial Paralysis / surgery*
  • Free Tissue Flaps*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Microsurgery / methods*
  • Muscle, Skeletal / transplantation*
  • Obturator Nerve / transplantation*
  • Salvage Therapy
  • Sural Nerve / transplantation
  • Thigh
  • Treatment Outcome