The effect of bipolar electrocautery on peripheral nerves

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1867-1874

  Hnatuk, Lorrence A ^a   Li, Kien T ^a   Carvalho, Andrew J ^a   Freeman, Jeremy L ^a   Bilbao, Juan M ^a   McKee, Nancy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIBIAL NERVE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0031798957     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199806000-00014     Document Type: Article

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