Neuroma Prevention by End-to-Side Neurorraphy: An Experimental Study in Rats

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1022-1028

  Aszmann, Oskar C ^a,b   Korak, Klaus J ^a   Rab, Matthias ^a   Grünbeck, Matthias ^a   Lassmann, Hans ^a   Frey, Manfred ^a  

^a University of Vienna ^*

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

End to side; Neuroma; Retrograde tracing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO SIDE NEURORRAPHY; EXPERIMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOOT SOLE; HISTOLOGY; IMPLANTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NERVE TRACT; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROMA; NONHUMAN; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; TARGET CELL; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0344873155     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0363-5023(03)00379-4     Document Type: Article

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