Bifid median nerve revisited: Imaging and clinical aspects [4]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1289-1290

  Erol, Özlem ^a   Özçakar, Levent ^a,b   Kaymak, Bayram ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BIFID MEDIAN NERVE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE INJURY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; HISTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE;

EID: 4444287483     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000110802.88291.37     Document Type: Letter

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