A comparative study of nerve healing in adult, neonatal, and fetal rabbits

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1386-1392

  Butler, Peter E M ^a,b   Derek Sims, C ^a,b   Randolph, Mark A ^a,b   Menkes, Daniel ^a,b   Onorato, Janice ^a,b   Andrew Lee, W P ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts General Hospital ^*

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE SUTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCIATIC NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; SCIATIC NERVE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 13044264466     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199910000-00022     Document Type: Article

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