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FACIAL HEMIATROPHY, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THREE CASES.
Author(s) -
Cox Leonard B.,
Maclure A. Fay
Publication year - 1935
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1935.tb02656.x
Subject(s) - medicine , trigeminal nerve , surgery , sign (mathematics) , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Summary 1. Three cases of facial hemiatrophy are described, one of which was congenital. In no case did the sympathetic nervous system seem to be involved. I n one a slight involvement of the trigeminal nerve occurred as a late sign. 2. A method of operative treatment by a tubed pedicle graft is described.