Nerve Transfers: Indications, Techniques, and Outcomes

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 332-341

  Tung, Thomas H ^a   Mackinnon, Susan E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brachial plexus; end to side; Nerve transfer; peripheral nerve

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY NERVE DISEASE; ARM; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONVALESCENCE; DENERVATION; DONOR; DONOR SITE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FOREARM; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND; HUMAN; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PINCH STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SCHWANN CELL; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE; SHOULDER; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON TRANSFER; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ULNAR NERVE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE TRANSFER; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 75149122787     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2009.12.002     Document Type: Review

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