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Isolated facial nerve palsy of peripheral type caused by an intrinsic brain stem tumor

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Kyushu University 60, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812, Fukuka, Japan

    Kenji Kodama & Shosuke Takahashi

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University 60, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812, Fukuda, Japan

    Takato Morioka & Takrao Machi

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Kodama, K., Morioka, T., Machi, T. et al. Isolated facial nerve palsy of peripheral type caused by an intrinsic brain stem tumor. J Anesth 8, 365–367 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02514670

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