A foregoing thenar muscular branch of the median nerve

Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 106-107

  Kuvat, Samet Vasfi ^a   Özçakar, Levent ^a   Yazar, Memet ^a  

^a Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

anatomical variations; Median nerve; motor branch

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953887492     PISSN: 09700358     EISSN: 1998376X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0358.63963     Document Type: Article

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