Coverage of painful peripheral nerve neuromas with vascularized soft tissue: Method and results

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Krishnan, Kartik G ^a   Pinzer, Thomas ^a   Schackert, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neuroma; Pain; Vascularized flaps

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLES FRACTURE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NEUROLYSIS; NEUROMA; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WRIST FRACTURE;

ADULT; ESTHETICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 16844376821     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000156881.10388.D8     Document Type: Article

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