Recovery of sensibility after digital neurorrhaphy: A clinical investigation of prognostic factors

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 610-617

  Weinzweig, Norman ^a   Chin, Gloria ^b   Mead, Marilee ^b   Stone, Aaron ^b   Nagle, Dan ^b   Gonzalez, Mark ^b   Koerber, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINGER INJURY; FINGER REPLANTATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SENSIBILITY;

EID: 0034086985     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-200044060-00006     Document Type: Article

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