End-to-end versus peripheral nerve graft repair of the oculomotor nerve in rats: A comparative histological and morphometric study

Microsurgery

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 392-400

  Menovsky, Tomas ^a   Van Der Bergh Weerman, Marius ^b   Kubista, Olga L ^c   Bartels, Ronald H M A ^a   Van Overbeeke, Jacobus J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRAL LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CAVERNOUS SINUS; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE REGENERATION; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033390321     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2752(1999)19:8<392::AID-MICR8>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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