Complete Hemifacial Paralysis Post-Facelift: Making Sense of a Plastic Surgeon's Worst Nightmare

CONCLUSIONS: Hemifacial paralysis associated with Bell's palsy following rhytidectomy is a rare but known clinical entity that should be included in the preoperative informed consent process prior to facelift. Current management trends are neurology referral and steroid initiation.PMID:37897668 | DOI:10.1093/asj/sjad337

Source: Hand Surgery - October 28, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Chelsea M Venditto James C Grotting Andre Auersvald Debra J Johnson Daniel Labb é Darryl Hodgkinson Alfonso Barrera Richard J Warren Giovanni Botti Nancy Von Laeken Madeline Bald Source Type: research