Proximal nerve elongation vs. nerve grafting in repairing segmental nerve defects in rabbits

Microsurgery

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 213-217

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

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FORELIMB; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TIBIAL NERVE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORELIMB; MEDIAN NEUROPATHY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROBABILITY; RABBITS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIAL NERVE; TISSUE EXPANSION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 2642561239     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20039     Document Type: Article

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