Superficial peroneal nerve anatomic variability changes surgical technique

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 438, Issue , 2005, Pages 248-252

  Rosson, Gedge D ^a   Dellon, A Lee ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Dellon Institute for Peripheral Nerve Surgery   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROMA; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPORT INJURY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FASCIA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PERONEAL NEUROPATHY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FASCIA; HUMANS; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PERONEAL NERVE; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 24344446764     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000169041.43495.58     Document Type: Review

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