Silver nitrate injury in the rat sciatic nerve: A model of facial nerve injury

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 48-54

  Wachter, Bryan G ^a   Leonetti, John P ^a   Lee, John M ^a   Wurster, Robert D ^a   Young, M Rita I ^a,b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILVER NITRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; WALKING; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCIATIC NERVE; SILVER NITRATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036632161     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2002.126592     Document Type: Article

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