Refinements in the Technique for Repair of the Accessory Nerve

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1401-1406

  Bertelli, Jayme Augusto ^a   Ghizoni, Marcos Flávio ^a  

^a Clinical Research Center of Nossa Senhora da Conceição Hospital   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Accessory nerve; nerve grafts; nerve reconstruction; shoulder palsy; trapezius muscle palsy

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY NERVE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLAVICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTION; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE SURGERY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ACCESSORY NERVE; ADULT; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SURAL NERVE; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 33749437721     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2006.04.014     Document Type: Article

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