Long head of the triceps transfer for elbow flexion

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Naidu, Shenthilkumar ^b   Lim, Aymeric ^a   Poh, Looi Kok ^b   Kumar, V P ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; RANGE OF MOTION; REIMPLANTATION; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ULNAR NERVE; VASCULAR PEDICLE;

ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARM; ARM INJURIES; ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPLANTATION; TENDON TRANSFER;

EID: 33847190351     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000252248.20854.e6     Document Type: Article

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