Repair of the main nerve trunk of the upper limb with end-to-side neurorrhaphy: An experimental study in rabbits

Microsurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 245-252

  Zhang, Zijie ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth O ^b   Vekris, Marios D ^b   Zoubos, Aristides B ^a   Bo, Jinyan ^a   Beris, Alexandros E ^b   Soucacos, Panayotis N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FLEXOR CARPI ULNARIS MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; MEDIAN NERVE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE MASS; MYELINATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE SURGERY; NEUROFILAMENT; NEURORRHAPHY; NONHUMAN; PERINEUROTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REINNERVATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; ULNAR NERVE;

ANIMALS; FORELIMB; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RABBITS;

EID: 33744967515     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20235     Document Type: Article

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