Can end-to-side neurorrhaphy bridge large defects? An experimental study in rats

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 664-671

  Lykissas, Marios G ^a   Korompilias, Anastasios V ^a   Batistatou, Anna K ^a   Mitsionis, Gregory I ^a   Beris, Alexandros E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collateral sprouting; End to side neurorrhaphy; Nerve injury; Nerve repair; Regenerative capacity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; END TO SIDE NEURORRHAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE MALFORMATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PERONEAL FUNCTION INDEX; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIAL NERVE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANIMALS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ORGAN SIZE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERONEAL NERVE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SUTURES; TIBIAL NERVE; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 35448945281     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20861     Document Type: Article

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