End-to-side nerve coaptation: Is an additional proximal coaptation useful when available?

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-288

  Özbek, Serhat ^a   Özcan, Mesut ^a   Noyan, Behzat ^a   Kurt, M Ayberk ^a   Tirelioolu, Serçin ^a   Bozkurt, Cengiz ^a   Karaca, Kemal ^a   Filiz, Gülaydan ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coaptation; Collateral sprouting; End to side neurorrhaphy; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIAL NERVE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSFER; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERONEAL NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 24044549689     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000171428.47890.13     Document Type: Article

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