The Single-Fascicle Method of Nerve Grafting

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 72-79

  Siemionow, Maria ^a   Zielinski, MacIej ^a   Meirer, Romed ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0348225328     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000097258.99511.ad     Document Type: Article

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