Nerve repair by means of vein filled with muscle grafts. II. Morphological analysis of regeneration

Microsurgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-41

  Battiston, Bruno ^a   Tos, Pierluigi ^a,b   Geuna, Stefano ^b   Giacobini Robecchi, Maria G ^b   Guglielmone, Renzo ^b  

^a CTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE GRAFT; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN GRAFT;

ANIMALS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033964479     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2752(2000)20:1<37::AID-MICR7>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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