A quiet hand for microneurosurgery: Twiddle your thumb. Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 541-544

  Ferguson, R Lawrence ^a,b   Jobe, Kirk ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistic movement; Fatigue; Quiet hand technique; Tension movement; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FATIGUE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENSION; THUMB;

EID: 4143116751     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.101.3.0541     Document Type: Article

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