Effect of platelet rich plasma and fibrin sealant on facial nerve regeneration in a rat model

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 157-165

  Farrag, Tarik Y ^a   Lehar, Mohamed ^a   Verhaegen, Pauline ^b   Carson, Kathryn A ^c   Byrne, Patrick J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial nerve regeneration; Fibrin sealant; Platelet rich plasma

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACIAL NERVE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCALE UP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUTURING METHOD; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUTURES; TISSUE ADHESIVES; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33846070607     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000249726.98801.77     Document Type: Article

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