Wide-awake flexor tendon repair

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 623-625

  Lalonde, Donald H ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSCIOUSNESS; DISSECTION; FINGER; FLEXOR TENDON; HAND; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MEDIAN NERVE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; ULNAR NERVE; VIDEORECORDING; WRIST; ADOLESCENT; HAND INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; TENDON INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TENDON INJURIES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 61449088523     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318195664c     Document Type: Article

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