A new epineural nerve repair technique: Oblique nerve coaptation

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 506-512

  Kayikçioǧlu, Aycan ^a,b   Karamürsel, Sebat ^a   Aǧaoǧlu, Galip ^a   Sargon, Mustafa F ^a   Keçik, Abdullah ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Anatomy Hacettepe Univ Faculty of Medicine ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MYELINATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE SUTURE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WALKING;

EID: 18244426015     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199911000-00007     Document Type: Article

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