Long-term evaluation of rabbit peripheral nerve repair with end-to-side neurorrhaphy in rabbits

Microsurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 262-267

  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; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; HISTOLOGY; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE SURGERY; NEURORRHAPHY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; ULNAR NERVE;

ANIMALS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33744974525     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20237     Document Type: Article

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