Is it possible to prefabricate a vascularized peripheral nerve graft?

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 323-326

  Serel, Savaş ^a   Kaya, Burak ^a   Sara, Yldrm ^b   Onur, Rüştü ^b   Heper, Aylin Okçu ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Functional graft; Prefabrication; Vascularized nerve graft

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; MICROSURGERY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; MICROSURGERY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 77649264253     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181a7308a     Document Type: Article

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