Tendon transfers: Part I. principles of transfer and transfers for radial nerve palsy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Sammer, Douglas M ^a   Chung, Kevin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; DONOR; HAND MUSCLE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROANATOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE PALSY; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON TRANSFER; TREATMENT INDICATION; ARTICLE; FOREARM; HAND; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; INJURY; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIAL NERVE; RADIAL NEUROPATHY;

BIOMECHANICS; FOREARM; HAND; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RADIAL NERVE; RADIAL NEUROPATHY; TENDON TRANSFER;

EID: 66549083350     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181a20526     Document Type: Review

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