Evaluation of the proprioceptive influence of the cutaneous afferents to the ankle in patients after sural nerve harvesting

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 519-525

  Rein, Susanne ^a   Fabian, Tobias ^a   Krishnan, Kartik ^a   Benesch, Stefan ^b   Schackert, Gabriele ^a   Zwipp, Hans ^a   Lindner, Claudia ^a   Weindel, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b Military Hospital Ulm   (Germany)

^c Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ankle; Biodex stability system; Peroneal reaction time; Proprioception; Sural nerve harvesting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE INJURY; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; PERONEAL REACTION TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SURAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANKLE JOINT; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKIN; SURAL NERVE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 62849102801     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000338954.93385.E4     Document Type: Article

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