Distal nerve elongation vs. Nerve grafting in repairing segmental nerve defects in rabbits

Microsurgery

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-212

  Matsuzaki, Hironori ^a   Shibata, Minoru ^a   Jiang, Baoguo ^a   Takahashi, Hideaki E ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FORELIMB; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIAL NERVE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MEDIAN NEUROPATHY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROBABILITY; RABBITS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIAL NERVE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE EXPANSION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 2642540981     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20042     Document Type: Article

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