Digital Rewarming Patterns After Median and Ulnar Nerve Injury

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-64

  Ruijs, A C J ^a   Niehof, S P ^a   Selles, R W ^a   Jaquet, J B ^a   Daanen, H A M ^a   Hovius, S E R ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cold intolerance; cold stress testing; median nerve; thermography; ulnar nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FOLLOW UP; HAND; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THERMOGRAPHY; ULNAR NERVE; WARMING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REWARMING; SENSATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; ULNAR NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149084713     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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