Recovery of sympathetic skin responses after digit-to-digit replantation and toe-to-digit transplantation in humans

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-74

  Chu, Nai Shin ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; FINGER REPLANTATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE REGENERATION; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SENSATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TOE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; TOES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030006856     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410400112     Document Type: Article

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