Endoscopie carpal tunnel release using a new median nerve protector

Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 841-847

  Kwok, Tiew Guan ^a,b   Huang, Chun Hsiung ^a   Kao, Hung Chan ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ECTR; Nerve protector

Indexed keywords

EID: 5044235923     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2004.06.031     Document Type: Article

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