Reconstruction of the Spinal Accessory Nerve with an Anastomosis to the Dorsal C3 Branch: Technical Note

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 208-210

  Braun, Veit ^a,c   Mayer, Michael ^b   Antoniadis, Gregor ^a   Richter, Hans Peter ^a   Schröder, Johann Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical dorsal branches; Neurotization; Peripheral nerve injury; Spinal accessory nerve

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY NERVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; SPASMODIC TORTICOLLIS; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ACCESSORY NERVE; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CYSTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; NECK; NECK MUSCLES; NERVE REGENERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

EID: 0030048130     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199601000-00048     Document Type: Article

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