Antegrade versus retrograde facial nerve dissection in benign parotid surgery: Is there a difference in postoperative outcomes? A meta-analysis

Mubarak Ahmed Mashrah; Taghrid Ahmed Al-dhohrah; Fahmi Ahmed Al-zubeiry; Lingjian Yan; Faez Saleh Al-Hamed; Xiaopeng Zhao; Chaobin Pan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206028

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Antegrade versus retrograde facial nerve dissection in benign parotid surgery: Is there a difference in postoperative outcomes? A meta-analysis

Mubarak Ahmed Mashrah ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: zsupcb@126.com (CP); mubarak198226@gmail.com (MAM); zsuzxp@126.com (XZ)

Affiliations Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Mother and Childhood Hospital, Ministry of Health, Ibb city, Yemen

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4372-0465

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Taghrid Ahmed Al-dhohrah,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology & Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Ibb University, Ibb city, Yemen
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Fahmi Ahmed Al-zubeiry,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua Stomatology Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Lingjian Yan,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Faez Saleh Al-Hamed,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Xiaopeng Zhao ,

Roles Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: zsupcb@126.com (CP); mubarak198226@gmail.com (MAM); zsuzxp@126.com (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Chaobin Pan

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: zsupcb@126.com (CP); mubarak198226@gmail.com (MAM); zsuzxp@126.com (XZ)

Affiliation Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Antegrade versus retrograde facial nerve dissection in benign parotid surgery: Is there a difference in postoperative outcomes? A meta-analysis

Mubarak Ahmed Mashrah,
Taghrid Ahmed Al-dhohrah,
Fahmi Ahmed Al-zubeiry,
Lingjian Yan,
Faez Saleh Al-Hamed,
Xiaopeng Zhao,
Chaobin Pan

Published: October 19, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206028

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