Testing cranial nerve VII: It is all in the wording
During our practice of clinical neurological examination we frequently observed that patients, upon testing of cranial nerve VII, when instructed to “wrinkle their forehead” (to evaluate the innervation of the M. frontalis), seem to falsely “frown” (i.e. innervate the corrugator supercilii). Here, w...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-03-01
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Series: | eNeurologicalSci |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240565021630003X |