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September 15, 2016Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Facial Nerve Axonal Analysis and Anatomical Localization in Donor Nerve: Optimizing Axonal Load for Cross-Facial Nerve Grafting in Facial Reanimation

Austin Hembd Purushottam Nagarkar Salim C. Saba Dinah Wan Joe Walter Kutz Brandon Isaacson Sachin Gupta Charles L. White Rod J. Rohrich Shai M. Rozen

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Branches with adequate axonal load were found in all specimens. The likelihood of adequate branch selection improved from 61 percent to 92 percent with short retrograde intraparotid dissection. Nerve diameter correlated with axonal load.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d78e79b843b2be99490482 https://doi.org/10.1097/prs.0000000000002897

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