THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF BENIGN MASSETERIC HYPERTROPHY
THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF BENIGN MASSETERIC HYPERTROPHY
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良性咬肌肥大的手术治疗
DOI:
10.1097/00006534-195503000-00005
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发表时间:
1955
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
K. Pickrell
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文献类型:
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作者:
F. Masters;N. Georgiade;K. Pickrell
In 1880, Legg (1) first described “an ill defined tumor mass” occurring in the masseter and temporal muscles of a 12 year old girl. These tumors appeared three weeks after an acute episode of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, and were still present and unchanged, four months later. He also cited a similar condition in a 20 year old girl, but was unable to establish the cause and no treatment Was performed on either patient.Following this initial report, only four others (2, 3, 8, 9) appeared in the literature until 1947, when Gurney (4) described the first surgical methol of treatment of masseteric hypertrophy. His technique advocated the exposure of the masseter muscle through a submandibular approach. After dividing the parotid fascia, the muscle bulged into the wound, and the “excision extended from the aponeurosis above, to the lower border of the mandible, and included the full width of