The long-term functional recovery of repair of sciatic nerve transection with biogenic conduits

Microsurgery

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 377-382

  Penna, Vincenzo ^a   Wewetzer, Konstantin ^b   Munder, Beatrix ^c   Stark, G Bjoern ^a   Lang, Eva M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c SANA KLINIKUM OFFENBACH   (Germany)

^d Plastic and Hand Surgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELINATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FIBRIN; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSFER; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDE; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863716995     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.21974     Document Type: Article

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