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V. Blair (1930)
FURTHER OBSERVATION UPON THE COMPENSATORY USE OF LIVE TENDON STRIPS FOR FACIAL PARALYSISAnnals of Surgery, XCII
H. Gillies (1934)
Experiences with Fascia Lata Grafts in the Operative Treatment of Facial ParalysisJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 27
J. Brown (1939)
THE UTILIZATION OF THE TEMPORAL MUSCLE AND FASCIA IN FACIAL PARALYSIS.Annals of surgery, 109 6
Herein are presented the results of a method of improving the appearance of the face after loss of the facial nerve. For many years the standard procedure for correcting facial paralysis had been a spinofacial or hypoglossofacial anastomosis. The results were good but far from perfect. The advent of fascial strips slung from the temporal fascia to the lower and upper lips and to the lower eyelid produced results as good as if not better than the nerve anastomosis. However, each procedure left much to be desired. The nerve anastomosis never produced complete motor function in either the lower part of the face or the lower eyelid and, while in a certain percentage of cases there was automatic muscular control, in most instances the muscular activity was dependent on movement of the shoulder with spinofacial or of the tongue with hypoglossofacial anastomosis. On the other hand, with the fascial strips
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Apr 8, 1944
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