title: Refined microneurovascular free muscle transplantation for reanimation of paralyzed face.
abstract: Our first clinical success in microneurovascular free muscle transplantation for treatment of long-standing facial paralysis was in 1973. The author introduces his recent technical refinements of this clinical procedure and the results obtained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harii
mesh_terms: D004576:Electromyography; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D005154:Facial Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000637:transplantation; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000098:blood supply / Q000294:innervation / Q000637:transplantation*; D012086:Reoperation; D013524:Surgical Flaps