Improved axon diameter and myelin sheath thickness in facial nerve cable grafts wrapped in temporoparietal fascial flaps

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 478-485

  O'Sullivan, Kimberley L ^b   Pap, Stephen A ^c   Megerian, Cliff A ^c   Li, Yaqi ^c   Sheffler, Lynne R ^a   Smith, Thomas W ^c   Lawrence, W Thomas ^c  

^a Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital   (United States)

^b Orthopaedic Associates of Hartford   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; HISTOLOGY; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FASCIA; FEMALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RABBITS; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0031954768     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199805000-00006     Document Type: Article

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