The clinical, electrophysiologic, and surgical characteristics of peripheral nerve injuries caused by gunshot wounds in adults: a 40-year experience

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-152

  Secer, Halil Ibrahim ^a   Daneyemez, Mehmet ^a   Tehli, Ozkan ^a   Gonul, Engin ^a   Izci, Yusuf ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gunshot wound; Nerve lesion; Prognosis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; FEMORAL NERVE; FOLLOW UP; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSILE WOUND; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE LESION; NERVE SURGERY; NERVE SUTURE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCAPULA; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY SYSTEM; TIBIAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 38749105070     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2007.01.032     Document Type: Article

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