End-to-side neurorrhaphy: A histologic and morphometric study of axonal sprouting into an end-to-side nerve graft

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-106

  Noah, Ernst Magnus ^a   Williams, Armistead ^a   Jorgenson, Craig ^a   Skoulis, Thomas G ^a   Terzis, Julia K ^a  

^a Microsurgical Research Center Norfolk   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; HISTOLOGY; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0031054959     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1000224     Document Type: Article

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