Clinical and user-friendly classification of traumatic digital nerve injuries of hand

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 527-530

  Kumar, Skand ^a   Hassouna, Hazem ^b   Penematsa, Subbaraju ^a  

^a NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Worthing Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital nerve; Hand injury; Incidence; Neurapraxia; Neurotemesis

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HAND INJURY; HUMAN; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGEON; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LACERATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547808227     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-007-0299-6     Document Type: Article

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