title: Surgical correction of unilateral and bilateral facial palsy.
abstract: Unilateral and bilateral facial palsies are debilitating and depressing conditions for the patient. For the past 30 years attempts have been made to improve the reanimation of these patients. The ability to transfer axons over significant distances with nerve grafts and the transfer of muscle that can be revascularised by microvascular surgery greatly improves results of this surgery. The revascularisation of muscle has been the important step forward but the re-focusing of interest in this condition has brought about a number of peripheral advances.
authors.affiliation: Regional Plastic Surgery Centre, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex, London, UK. dhharrison@hotmail.com
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Harrison
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005546:Forehead; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020331:Mobius Syndrome / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D010369:Pectoralis Muscles / Q000637:transplantation; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting