Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 2389354, 4 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/2389354
Case Report
Neurolysis for Treatment of Infraorbital Neuropathy
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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