Motor and sensory reinnervation in the hand after an end-to-side median to ulnar nerve coaptation in the forearm

British Journal of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 404-407

  Kostakoglu, Naci ^a,b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coaptation; End to side; Median nerve; Reinnervation; Ulnar nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM INJURY; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DERMATOME; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; SENSORY NERVE; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0033165921     PISSN: 00071226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjps.1999.3123     Document Type: Article

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