Failed digital nerve reconstruction by foreign body reaction to Neurolac®: Nerve conduit

Microsurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 414-416

  Hernández Cortés, Pedro ^a   Juan, Garrido ^a   Cámara, Miguel ^a   Ravassa, Francisco O'Valle ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOMUTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NEUROMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; POLYESTERS; RATS;

EID: 77956837565     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20730     Document Type: Letter

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