Learning curve of microvascular venous anastomosis: A never ending struggle?

Microsurgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 22-24

  Hui, Kenneth C W ^a   Zhang, Feng ^a   Shaw, William W ^b   Kryger, Zol ^a   Piccolo, Nelson S ^c   Harper, Alice ^c   Lineaweaver, William C ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMORAL VEIN; GRAFT PATENCY; LEARNING; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL TRAINING; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMORAL VEIN; MICROSURGERY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0033977719     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2752(2000)20:1<22::AID-MICR4>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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