Repair of peripheral nerve defects with epineural sheath grafts

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 546-554

  Siemionow, Maria ^a   Demir, Yavuz ^a   Mukherjee, Abir Lal ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

epineural sheath graft; Nerve; nerve regeneration; peripheral nerve defect; repair

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HINDLIMB; INNERVATION; LEWIS RAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HINDLIMB; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 78650511791     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181fd6b18     Document Type: Article

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