A Comparison of Polyglycolic Acid Versus Type 1 Collagen Bioabsorbable Nerve Conduits in a Rat Model: An Alternative to Autografting

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1521-1529

  Waitayawinyu, Thanapong ^a   Parisi, Debra M ^a   Miller, Brian ^a   Luria, Shai ^a   Morton, Holly J ^a   Chin, Simon H ^a   Trumble, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nerve conduit; nerve graft; nerve repair; polyglycolic acid; type I collagen

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNAPSE;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; AXONS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; FEMALE; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; ORGAN SIZE; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 36749025068     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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