End-to-side nerve graft repair based on synergistic peripheral terminal motor branches: Investigation in a nonhuman primate model

European Surgery - Acta Chirurgica Austriaca

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 308-316

  Schmidhammer, Robert ^a   Redl, H ^a   Hopf, R ^a   Van Der Nest, D G ^b   Millesi, H ^c  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus; End to side coaptation; Nerve regeneration

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; INNERVATION; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; THENAR; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 28244453172     PISSN: 16821769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10353-005-0188-6     Document Type: Article

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