Anatomic variant of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 352, Issue , 1998, Pages 128-130

  Steinberg, Ely L ^a,b   Luger, Elchanan ^a   Taitz, Cecil ^a   Arensburg, Baruch ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031815066     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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