Brachial plexus repair by peripheral nerve grafts directly implanted into the contralateral spinal cord

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 189-194

  Bertelli, Jayme Augusto ^a,b,c   Taleb, Madjid ^b   Mira, Jean Claude ^b   Calixto, Joao Batista ^a   Kassar, Lina ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c Praça Getulio Vargas 322   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nerve grafts; Nerve regeneration; Nerve repair; Nerve transfer; Regeneration; Reinnervation; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

DIAMIDINE DERIVATIVE; DYE; TRUE BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0031411718     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/rnn-1997-11402     Document Type: Article

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