Repair of the sciatic nerve defect with a direct gradual lengthening of proximal and distal nerve stumps in rabbits

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 846-854

  Sharula, ^a   Hara, Yuki ^a   Nishiura, Yasumasa ^a   Saijilafu, ^a   Kubota, Shigeki ^a   Ochiai, Naoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ELONGATION; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE EXPANSION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RABBITS; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 77749314941     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181ccdbd4     Document Type: Article

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