Sympathetic nerves in the tarsal tunnel: Implications for blood flow in the diabetic foot

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 188-191

  Blount, Andrew L ^a,b   Peled, Ziv M ^a,b   Dexter, Erica L ^a,b   Nagle, Raymond B ^a,b   Maloney, Christopher T ^a,b   Dellon, A Lee ^a,b  

^a Institute for Plastic Surgery and Peripheral Nerve Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NEURECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TARSAL JOINT; ADRENERGIC NERVE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; FOOT; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; TARSAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PILOT PROJECTS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TARSAL TUNNEL SYNDROME;

EID: 48049088340     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817742c3     Document Type: Article

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