Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The stylomastoid artery as an anatomical landmark to the facial nerve during parotid surgery: a clinico-anatomic study | World Journal of Surgical Oncology BioMed Central Open Access The stylomastoid artery as an anatomical landmark to the facial nerve during parotid surgery a clinico-anatomic study Tahwinder Upile 1 2 3 4 Waseem Jerjes3 4 5 Seyed Ahmad Reza Nouraei2 Sandeep U Singh2 Panagiotis Kafas6 Ann Sandison7 Holger Sudhoff8 and Colin Hopper3 4 5 Address Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Charing Cross Hospital London UK 2The Ear Institute University College London London UK 3UCLH Head Neck Centre London UK 4Department of Surgery University College London Medical School London UK 5Unit of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Division of Maxillofacial Diagnostic Medical and Surgical Sciences UCL Eastman Dental Institute London UK department of Oral Surgery and Radiology School of Dentistry Aristotle University Greece department of Pathology Imperial College Charing Cross Hospital London UK and department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Bielefeld Academic Teaching Hospital Bielefeld Germany Email Tahwinder Upile - mrtupile@ Waseem Jerjes - waseem_wk1@ Seyed Ahmad RezaNouraei - Sandeep U Singh - sandeepupile@ Panagiotis Kafas - pankafas@ Ann Sandison - ann_sandison@ Holger Sudhoff - Colin Hopper - Corresponding author Published 28 September 2009 Received 8 May 2009 __ rr. inAO - .-71 Accepted 28 September 2009 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7 71 doi 1477-7819-7-71 This article is available from http content 7 1 71 2009 Upile et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The identification of the facial nerve can be difficult in