Extracranial Course of the Facial Nerve Revisited.

Paula Martínez PascualEva MaranilloMaría Teresa Vázquez-OsorioClara Simon de BlasJose Maria LassoJosé Ramón Sañudo

Published in: Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) (2018)

We propose a new 12-patterned classification which summarizes the previous ones. However, we consider that a good study of the number of terminal branches, connections between branches or with other cranial nerves are more useful for surgeons to avoid injuries to the facial nerve during surgery than complex classifications. Anat Rec, 302:599-608, 2019. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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