Sensory recovery and meissner corpuscle number after toe-to-hand transplantation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2405-2411

  Wei, Fu Chan ^a   Carver, Nigel ^a   Lee, Yi Hsuan ^a   Chuang, David Chwei Chin ^a   Cheng, Shao Lung ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FINGER TIP INJURY; GLABROUS SKIN; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; MEISSNER CORPUSCLE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REINNERVATION; TOE;

EID: 0034115905     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200006000-00015     Document Type: Article

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