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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2017, Article ID 2389354, 4 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/2389354
Case Report

Neurolysis for Treatment of Infraorbital Neuropathy

Ahmet Mahli and Demet Coskun

Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Correspondence should be addressed to Demet Coskun; rt.ude.izag@nuksocd

Received 1 August 2017; Revised 1 October 2017; Accepted 26 October 2017; Published 14 November 2017

Academic Editor: Vincenzo Di Lazzaro

Copyright © 2017 Ahmet Mahli and Demet Coskun. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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