Open AccessEffect of Botulinum Toxin A on Muscle Healing and its Implications in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery
Author(s) -
Eldad Silberstein,
Ehud Maor,
Oleg Sukmanov,
Alexander Bogdanov Berezovsky,
Yaron Shoham,
Yuval Krieger
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
aesthetic surgery journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.528
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1527-330X
pISSN - 1090-820X
DOI - 10.1093/asj/sjx207
Subject(s) - medicine , myotomy , tenotomy , botulinum toxin , contracture , surgery , trismus , muscle contracture , anesthesia , tendon , achalasia , esophagus
Muscle activity contributes to the enhancement of facial aging deformity, blepharospasm, cerebral palsy spasticity, trismus, torticollis, and other conditions. Myotomy of the involved muscles in order to reduce the deformity has variable success rates due to muscle healing and regeneration of activity.
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