title: Clinical interpretation of difference in motor facial innervation before, during and after stereotactic brain operations.
abstract: Stereotactic brain operations performed in the ventrolateral thalamic nucleus area and in the subthalamus can produce very difference effects upon motor facial innervation depending on the voluntary motricity and the degree of tonicity and emotion or combination of the two.
mesh_terms: D005154:Facial Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013788:Thalamus / Q000601:surgery*