Influence of nerve stump transplantation into a vein on neuroma formation

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 354-360

  Koch, Horst ^a   Herbert, Timothy J ^b   Kleinert, Reinhold ^a   Hubmer, Martin ^a   Scharnagl, Erwin ^a   Pierer, Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Le Bas Gauds Meridional ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDONEURIUM; FEMORAL NERVE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KNEE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROMA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; FEMORAL NERVE; FEMORAL VEIN; MALE; NEUROMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; RATS;

EID: 0037382128     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000041486.24160.8C     Document Type: Article

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