End-to-side nerve repair: Attachment of a distal, compared with a proximal and distal, nerve segment

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 129-135

  Bontioti, Eleana ^a   Kanje, Martin ^b   Dahlin, Lars B ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collateral sprouting; End to side; Nerve injury; Nerve regeneration; Nerve repair

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; RADIAL NERVE; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MICROSURGERY; MUSCULOCUTANEOUS NERVE; NEURONS; RADIAL NERVE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SPINAL CORD; WALKING;

EID: 33646816729     PISSN: 02844311     EISSN: 16512073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02844310600574056     Document Type: Article

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