A novel technique for peripheral nerve repair

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-101

  Scharpf, Joseph ^a   Meirer, Romed ^a   Zielinski, Maciej ^a   Unsal, Murat ^a   Ramineni, Praful ^a   Nair, Dileep ^a   Siemionow, Maria ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPIKE WAVE; STAINING; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037222675     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200301000-00018     Document Type: Article

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