Targeted reinnervation in the transfemoral amputee: A preliminary study of surgical technique

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 187-194

  Agnew, Sonya P ^a   Schultz, Aimee E ^a   Dumanian, Gregory A ^a   Kuiken, Todd A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONVALESCENCE; DISABLED PERSON; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; LEG; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROSURGERY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIATIC NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THIGH; TRANSPLANTATION;

AMPUTEES; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; CADAVER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE TRANSFER; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; THIGH;

EID: 84555191827     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182268d0d     Document Type: Article

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