FACIAL PARALYSIS

 

Primary Literature

Shaw J. On partial paralysis. Med Chir Trans 1823;12:105-151. [pubmedcentral]

Bell C. Appendix to the papers on the nerves, republished from the Royal Society's Transactions. London: Longman 1827.

Dieffenbach JF. Ueber halbseitige Gesichtslähmung und Durchscheidung der Muskeln der gesunden Gesichtshälfte dabei. Med Zeit 1841;37:179.

Von Langenbeck B. Subcutane Durchschneidung contrahirten Gesichtsmuskeln bei Paralyse des Nervi facialis der entgegen-gesetzten Seite. Ann F F Ges Heilk 1841;1:544.

Bell C. The nervous system of the human body. London: Henry Renshaw 1844.

Neubaur OH. De paralysi nervi facialis et de myotomia in casibus inveteratis (thesis). Berlin 1848.

Romberg MH. A manual of the nervous system of man. London: The Sydemham Society 1853.

Detmold W. The cure of facial paralysis by division of antagonistic muscles. Bull N Y Acad Med 1860;1:271-272. [google books]

Detmold W. Facial paralysis treated by a new method. Trans N Y Acad Med 1874;2:280. [google books]

Tillmanns H. Lehrbuch der Speciellen Chirurgie, vol 1. Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Comp; 1891:178.

Ballance CA, Ballance HA, Steward P. Remarks on the operative treatment of chronic facial palsy of peripheral orgin. Br Med J 1903 May 2;1009-1013. [pubmedcentral]

Körte W. Ein Fall von Nervenpfropfung des Nervus facialis auf den Nervus hypoglossus. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 1903;29:293-295.

Sawicki B. Pologne. In: Chipault A. L’état actuel de la chirurgie nerveuse. Paris: J Rueff, 1903:189.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Secondary literature

 

Conway H. Muscle Plastic Operations for Facial Paralysis. Ann Surg 1958;147(4):541–552. [pubmedcentral]

Bird TD. Nicolaus A. Friedreich's description of peripheral facial nerve paralysis in 1798. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1979;42(1):56-58. [pubmedcentral]

Wallace AF. Facial palsy and muscle grafts. In Wallace AF. The Progress of Plastic Surgery, an Introductory History. Oxford: Willem A. Meeuws 1982:177-179.

Nicolai JPA. Irreversible facial paralysis and its treatment (Thesis). Groningen, The Netherlands, 1983.

Shah SB, Jackler RK. Facial nerve surgery in the 19th and early 20th centuries: the evolution from crossover anastomosis to direct nerve repair. Am J Otol 1998; 19:236-245. [pubmed]

Pearce JMS. Bell's or Friedreich's palsy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1999;67(6):732. [pubmedcentral]

Streppel M, Heiser T, Stennert E. Zur geschichtlichen Entwicklung der Fazialischirurgie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Hypoglossus-Fazialis-Anastomose. HNO 2000;48:801-808. [pubmed]

Van de Graaf RC, Nicolai JPA. Was Thomasz Drobnik really the first to operate on the facial nerve? Otol Neurotol 2003;24:686-690. [pubmed]

Nicolai JPA, Van de Graaf RC. Facial paralysis: developments of treatments in the past century. In: The Facial palsies. Utrecht: Lemma 2005.

Van de Graaf RC. The early history of the facial nerve, facial muscles and facial paralysis. In: The Facial palsies. Utrecht: Lemma 2005.

Werker PMN. Static correction of the nasolabial area. In: The Facial palsies. Utrecht: Lemma 2005.

Van de Graaf RC, Nicolai JPA. On the surgical treatment of facial paralysis in the early nineteenth century. Plast Reconstr Surg 2008;121(2):475-480. [pubmed]

Van de Graaf RC, Nicolai JPA. Facial paralysis in the early nineteenth century. Plast Reconstr Surg 2008;122(3):996-997. [pubmed]

Aciiduman A, Arda B, Gunaydin A, Belen D. Laqve (wry mouth) considered in Avicenna's renowned treatise the Canon of Medicine. Neurocirugia 2008;19:267-271. [neurocirugia]

Van de Graaf RC, Nicolai JPA, IJpma FFA. Re: Cross-facial nervegraft: past and present. J Plast Reconstr Aethet Surg 2008;61(4):462-3. [pubmed] 

Van de Graaf RC. Reflections on the development of facial nerve crossover anastomosis. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2008;150(7):739-40. [pubmed]

Van de Graaf RC, IJpma FFA, Nicolai JPA. Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (1856—1936) and the introduction of facial nerve crossover anastomosis in 1895. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2009;62(1):43-49. [pubmed]

Van de Graaf RC.  A plea for a more critical and scientific attitude regarding the use of historical information. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2009;62(2):268-269. [pubmed]

Korteweg SFS, Van de Graaf RC, Werker PMN. About the right facial palsy of Charles Bell - Was Sir Charles bell himself really affected by facial paralysis? - Comment on 'Peripheral facial palsy in the past. Contributions from Avicenna, Nicolaus Friedreich and Charles Bell'. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2009;67(3-A):783-784. [Arq Neuropsiquiatr]