Nerve bypass grafting for the treatment of neuroma-in-continuity: An experimental study on the rat

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 163-171

  Tomita, Koichi ^a,b   Kubo, Tateki ^a   Matsuda, Ken ^a   Fujiwara, Toshihiro ^a   Kawai, Ken Ichiro ^a   Masuoka, Takeshi ^a   Yano, Kenji ^a   Hosokawa, Ko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

End to side neurorrhaphy; Nerve bypass graft; Neuroma in continuity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROMA; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROMA; ORGAN SIZE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; PERONEAL NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ULNAR NERVE; WALKING;

EID: 34247589103     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-974652     Document Type: Article

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