Targeted reinnervation for transhumeral amputees: Current surgical technique and update on results

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 863-869

  Dumanian, Gregory A ^a   Ko, Jason H ^b   O'Shaughnessy, Kristina D ^b   Kim, Peter S ^b   Wilson, Christopher J ^b   Kuiken, Todd A ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARM; ARM AMPUTATION; ARM PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMERUS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

AMPUTATION STUMPS; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE TRANSFER; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 70349291336     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181b038c9     Document Type: Article

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