Outcome models in peripheral nerve repair: Time for a reappraisal or for a novel?

Microsurgery

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 326-333

  Galanakos, Spyridon P ^a   Zoubos, Aristides B ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth O ^a   Kanellopoulos, Anastasios D ^a   Soucacos, Panayotis N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LONG TERM CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE REGENERATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860890651     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20972     Document Type: Review

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